Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:28:31 +0200 From: Michael Schaefer <utf128@googlemail.com> To: ndhertbsd@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD82 sec patch -p4, uname still -p3 Message-ID: <4E8EF06F.5040109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEFCw4s2jfgWja47ptPgUWPUOxojSr-UKh9k3iBnuhUWoUWPCw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEFCw4v9v5f3fatEhff60LdLjhcMcsAAbWeWzh5GiMin9SsXYA@mail.gmail.com> <20111007070114.GA46357@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <4E8EC7EE.80505@gmail.com> <CAEFCw4s2jfgWja47ptPgUWPUOxojSr-UKh9k3iBnuhUWoUWPCw@mail.gmail.com>
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well I know about the newvers.sh. But as far as I understand the advisory (and the patch) the file sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c is modified. I'm not that much into the FreeBSD kernel code. However, isn't this affecting the kernel image? regards - Michael On 07.10.2011 13:33, n dhert wrote: > I believe the reason is the following: > The changes were to /boot/GENERIC/linux.ko and > /boot/GENERIC/linux.ko.symbols > and NOT to the *freebsd* kernel /boot/GENERIC/kernel ... > So,the freebsd kernel didn't change, uname -a gets its info from the linux > kernel (not directly from the > /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh file), this is unchanged, hence it still > reports -p3 > > On another system where I have a custom kernel (QUOTA support), as always, I > did a makebuild from sources > (although stricktly spreaking it in *this* case it was not necessary), did a > makeinstall, rebooted, and there uname -a is -p4, > which makes sense, since rebuilding the kernel from source files wrote the > information contained in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh into the kernel > binary, from which uname -a extracts the patch version .. > 2011/10/7 Michael Schaefer <utf128@googlemail.com> > >> On 07.10.2011 09:01, Jason Helfman wrote: >>> If your kernel wasn't touched during the update, then uname won't bump. >> >> but as -p4 for 8.2 fixes FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix, it should have touched the >> kernel, shouldn't it? >> >> regards - Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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