kern/60503: small error in modules installation

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Mon Dec 22 05:00:42 PST 2003


>Number:         60503
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       small error in modules installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 22 05:00:35 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gleb Smirnoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Bestcom ISP
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD cell.sick.ru 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 19 10:22:46 MSD 2003 root at fade.bestcom.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NUCLEUS i386
>Description:

	When ${KMODDIR}, usually /modules, does not exist modules installation
	process does not fail, but all modules are written into file /modules,
	overwriting each other.

>How-To-Repeat:

	su-2.05b# rm -rf /modules
	su-2.05b# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_gif
	su-2.05b# make
		...
	su-2.05b# make install
	install -o root -g wheel -m 555   if_gif.ko /modules
	su-2.05b# file /modules 
	/modules: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), not stripped

	make installkernel will write all modules into one file "/modules".
>Fix:

--- kmod.mk.orig	Mon Dec 22 15:29:59 2003
+++ kmod.mk	Mon Dec 22 15:43:49 2003
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@
 realinstall: _kmodinstall
 .ORDER: beforeinstall _kmodinstall
 _kmodinstall:
+.if !exists(${KMODDIR})
+	@mkdir -p ${KMODDIR};
+.endif
 	${INSTALL} -o ${KMODOWN} -g ${KMODGRP} -m ${KMODMODE} \
 	    ${_INSTALLFLAGS} ${PROG} ${DESTDIR}${KMODDIR}
 .endif !target(realinstall)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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