[ANNOUNCE] kmod 18

From: Lucas De Marchi
Date: Sat Jun 14 2014 - 11:57:29 EST


kmod 18 is out:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-18.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-18.tar.sign

Small fixes to libkmod, tools and testsuite. The biggest visible change is in
depmod, that now fails if dependency loops are present.

- Bug fixes:
- Fix leaks in error paths
- Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be
generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules

- New features:
- Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make
depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect
the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause
a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary
change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and
module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output
the modules that caused the dependency cycle.

- Improvements to testsuite:
- Fix and improve expected-fail test
- Add tests for hashmap implementation


And the shortlog:

Joe Lawrence (1):
man: fixup spacing/parens in modprobe.d(5)

Leandro Pereira (5):
Bail out of index_mm_open() if fstat() fails
Ensure read_long() reads the correct number of bytes from the index
Free realnames if kmod_lookup_alias_from_alias_bin() fails
Free abspath if kmod_module_new_from_path() fails.
Close /sys/module/$NAME directory if opening /proc/module fails.

Lucas De Marchi (17):
Update .travis.yml
Add strndupa to missing.h
Make sure there's NUL byte at the end of strndupa
testsuite: Add module playground dir
Add gitignore to module playground
depmod: Make dependency loops be fatal
depmod: Rename variable to clarify its meaning
testsuite: add test to fail depmod on module loops
depmod: Add better error messages when facing loops
testsuite: Add braces
testsuite: Fix expected_fail parsing
testsuite: check for correct error message in detect-loop
testsuite: separate testcases on log
testsuite: Add assert_return
testsuite: Add basic tests for hash implementation
testsuite: Fix macro missing format string
kmod 18

Lukas Anzinger (1):
Fix use-after-free in hash implementation.

Marco d'Itri (1):
Remove references to systemd from the bash completion file


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Lucas De Marchi
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