From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, michal.lkml@markovi.net,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: introduce KERNEL_VERSION2 and LINUX_VERSION_CODE2
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:54:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB6Rc+VdLT+wGIR9@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210206035033.2036180-3-sashal@kernel.org>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:50:33PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> SUBLEVEL only has 8 bits of space, which means that we'll overflow it
> once it reaches 256.
>
> Few of the stable branches will imminently overflow SUBLEVEL while
> there's no risk of overflowing VERSION.
>
> Thus, give SUBLEVEL 8 more bits which will be stolen from VERSION, this
> should create a better balance between the different version numbers we
> use.
>
> We can't however use the original KERNEL_VERSION and LINUX_VERSION_CODE
> as userspace has created ABI dependency on their structure, and we risk
> breaking this userspace by modifying the layout of the version integers.
>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> Makefile | 8 +++++++-
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/aspeed-vhub/hub.c | 4 ++--
> include/linux/usb/composite.h | 4 ++--
> kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-example.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-test-kbuild.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/tests/bpf-script-test-prologue.c | 2 +-
> 9 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 157be50c691e5..2177c548e4c24 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1266,7 +1266,13 @@ define filechk_version.h
> expr $(VERSION) \* 65536 + 0$(PATCHLEVEL) \* 256 + $(SUBLEVEL)); \
> fi; \
> echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + \
> - ((c) > 255 ? 255 : (c)))'
> + ((c) > 255 ? 255 : (c)))'; \
> + echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE2 $(shell \
Wait, no, who will use LINUX_VERSION_CODE2()? Why export something like
this to userspace that no one is asking for?
> + expr $(VERSION) \* 16777216 + 0$(PATCHLEVEL) \* 65536 + 0$(SUBLEVEL)); \
> + echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_MAJOR $(VERSION); \
> + echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL $(PATCHLEVEL); \
> + echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_SUBLEVEL $(SUBLEVEL); \
These are good to have, and clean up kernel code.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-06 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 3:50 [PATCH 1/3] Revert "kbuild: give the SUBLEVEL more room in KERNEL_VERSION" Sasha Levin
2021-02-06 3:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] kbuild: clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 Sasha Levin
2021-02-06 12:51 ` Greg KH
2021-02-07 2:52 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-08 13:48 ` David Laight
2021-02-08 14:09 ` gregkh
2021-02-08 15:13 ` David Laight
2021-02-09 1:58 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-06 3:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: introduce KERNEL_VERSION2 and LINUX_VERSION_CODE2 Sasha Levin
2021-02-06 4:01 ` Sasha Levin
2021-02-06 12:45 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-06 14:31 ` Sasha Levin
2021-02-06 12:53 ` Greg KH
2021-02-06 12:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-06 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] Revert "kbuild: give the SUBLEVEL more room in KERNEL_VERSION" Masahiro Yamada
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