ACK: [Oneiric][SRU][PATCH] remove security_sk_clone calls from compat-wireless-3.2

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/16/2012 05:28 PM, James M. Leddy wrote:
> From: James M. Leddy <james.leddy at canonical.com>
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/914689
>
> === Oneiric SRU Justification ===
> There is an abi incompatibility with current compat-wireless lbm and
> what we have in 3.0. That means that we have no way to load the
> bluetooth modules. This is a serious problem for anyone that has a newer
> wireless card but also wants to use bluetooth.
>
> == Fix ==
> Remove the security_sk_clone call. This is just a call to copy over
> security information when cloning a socket, but it's something that we
> have never had in linux-3.0. This call was not exported in the linux-3.0
> code which is why we can't load the module with that call included
>
> == Test Case ==
> Install inux-backports-modules-3.0.0 for Oneiric and confirm that you
> can't load bluetooth module or drivers like btusb because of symbol
> resolution errors. Apply the patch and notice that you cand load
> bluetooth and drivers with no problems.
>
> There is no risk of regression since LBM is an elective install. I've
> attached the patch as bzr output, please let me know if git commit
> output is necessary.
>
> Alternately, you can merge this branch:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jm-leddy/ubuntu/oneiric/linux-backports-modules-3.0.0/fix-914689
>
>
>

I've been investigating this. The patch is fine, but we also need to fix 
the root cause in upstream cw-3.1 or we'll just have this problem next 
time we update.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com