From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@protonmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
masahiroy@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel version numbers after 4.9.255 and 4.4.255
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:33:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB0Q3UUzTUmgvH7V@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210205090659.GA22517@amd>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:06:59AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2021-02-04 09:51:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:26:04AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > On 04. 02. 21, 7:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 05:59:42AM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > > > > Greg,
> > > > > I hope that your linux kernel release scripts are
> > > > > implemented in a way that understands that PATCHLEVEL= and
> > > > > SUBLEVEL= numbers in top-level linux Makefile are encoded
> > > > > as 8-bit numbers for LINUX_VERSION_CODE and
> > > > > KERNEL_VERSION() macros, and must stay in range 0...255.
> > > > > These 8-bit limits are hardcoded in both kernel source and
> > > > > userspace ABI.
> > > > >
> > > > > After 4.9.255 and 4.4.255, your scripts should be
> > > > > incrementing a number in EXTRAVERSION= in top-level
> > > > > linux Makefile.
> > > >
> > > > Should already be fixed in linux-next, right?
> > >
> > > I assume you mean:
> > > commit 537896fabed11f8d9788886d1aacdb977213c7b3
> > > Author: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > > Date: Mon Jan 18 14:54:53 2021 -0500
> > >
> > > kbuild: give the SUBLEVEL more room in KERNEL_VERSION
> > >
> > > That would IMO break userspace as definition of kernel version has changed.
> > > And that one is UAPI/ABI (see include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h) as
> > > Jari writes. For example will glibc still work:
> > > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac;h=13abda0a51484c5951ffc6d718aa36b72f3a9429;hb=HEAD#l14
> > >
> > > ? Or gcc 10 (11 will have this differently):
> > > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/config/bpf/bpf.c;hb=ee5c3db6c5b2c3332912fb4c9cfa2864569ebd9a#l165
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/config/bpf/bpf-helpers.h;hb=ee5c3db6c5b2c3332912fb4c9cfa2864569ebd9a#l53
> >
> > Ugh, I thought this was an internal representation, not an external one
> > :(
> >
> > > It might work somewhere, but there are a lot of (X * 65536 + Y * 256 + Z)
> > > assumptions all around the world. So this doesn't look like a good idea.
> >
> > Ok, so what happens if we "wrap"? What will break with that? At first
> > glance, I can't see anything as we keep the padding the same, and our
> > build scripts seem to pick the number up from the Makefile and treat it
> > like a string.
> >
> > It's only the crazy out-of-tree kernel stuff that wants to do minor
> > version checks that might go boom. And frankly, I'm not all that
> > concerned if they have problems :)
> >
> > So, let's leave it alone and just see what happens!
>
> Yeah, stable is a great place to do the experiments. Not that this is
> the first time :-(.
How else can we "test this out"?
Should I do an "empty" release of 4.4.256 and see if anyone complains?
Any other ideas are gladly welcome...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-04 5:59 Kernel version numbers after 4.9.255 and 4.4.255 Jari Ruusu
2021-02-04 6:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-04 7:26 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-02-04 8:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-04 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-02-04 16:28 ` David Laight
2021-02-04 16:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-04 20:19 ` Christoph Biedl
2021-02-05 6:52 ` Greg KH
2021-02-05 17:31 ` Tony Battersby
2021-02-05 18:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-02-06 7:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-06 9:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-02-06 9:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-06 9:48 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-02-06 10:18 ` Hans Verkuil
2021-02-06 11:18 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-02-06 7:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-05 9:06 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-05 9:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-02-05 18:44 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-06 7:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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