Re: [PATCH v3] depmod: Handle installing modules under a prefix

[Nicolas Schier]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Michal Such�nek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:05:10PM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 02:21:08PM +0200 Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > Some distributions aim at not shipping any files in / outside of usr.
> > 
> > For me, preventing negation often makes things easier, e.g.: "... aim at
> > shipping files only below /usr".
> > 
> > > 
> > > The path under which kernel modules are installed is hardcoded to /lib
> > > which conflicts with this goal.
> > > 
> > > When kmod provides the config command, use it to determine the correct
> > > module installation prefix.
> > > 
> > > This is a prefix under which the modules are searched by kmod on the
> > > system, and is separate from the temporary staging location already
> > > supported by INSTALL_MOD_PATH.
> > > 
> > > With kmod that does not provide the config command empty prefix is used
> > > as before.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > v2: Avoid error on systems with kmod that does not support config
> > > command
> > > v3: More verbose commit message
> > > ---
> > >  Makefile          | 4 +++-
> > >  scripts/depmod.sh | 8 ++++----
> > >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > index 47690c28456a..b1fea135bdec 100644
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -1165,7 +1165,9 @@ export INSTALL_DTBS_PATH ?= $(INSTALL_PATH)/dtbs/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> > >  # makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.
> > >  #
> > >  
> > > -MODLIB	= $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> > > +export KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX := $(shell kmod config &> /dev/null && kmod config | jq -r .module_prefix)
> > 
> > All other calls of `jq` that I could find are located at tools/; as this here
> > is evaluated on each invocation, this should probably be documented in
> > Documentation/process/changes.rst?
> > 
> > (Absence of `jq` will cause error messages, even with CONFIG_MODULES=n.)
> 
> That's a good point.
> 
> > 
> > > +
> > > +MODLIB	= $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)$(KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> > >  export MODLIB
> > >  
> > >  PHONY += prepare0
> > > diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
> > > index 3643b4f896ed..88ac79056153 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/depmod.sh
> > > +++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
> > > @@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ fi
> > >  # numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
> > >  depmod_hack_needed=true
> > >  tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/depmod.XXXXXX)
> > > -mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
> > > +mkdir -p "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
> > >  if "$DEPMOD" -b "$tmp_dir" $KERNELRELEASE 2>/dev/null; then
> > > -	if test -e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep" -o \
> > > -		-e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin"; then
> > > +	if test -e "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep" -o \
> > > +		-e "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin"; then
> > >  		depmod_hack_needed=false
> > >  	fi
> > >  fi
> > 
> > I'd like to come back to the statement from Masahiro: Is the check above,
> > against some very old versions of depmod [1], the only reason for this patch?  
> > 
> > If we could remove that, would
> > 
> >     make INSTALL_MOD_PATH="$(kmod config | jq -r .module_prefix)" modules_install
> > 
> > be sufficient?
> 
> No, the INSTALL_MOD_PATH is passed as the -b argument to depmod while
> the newly added part is not because it's integral part of where the
> modules are installed on the system, and not the staging area path.

Ah, thanks.  So just for my understanding, could this be a (non-gentle)
alternative version of your patch, w/o modifying top-level Makefile?

diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index 3643b4f896ed..72c819de0669 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #
 # A depmod wrapper used by the toplevel Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
        exit 0
 fi
 
+kmod_version=$(( $(kmod --version | sed -rne 's/^kmod version ([0-9]+).*$/\1/p') ))
+
 # older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
 # numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
 depmod_hack_needed=true
@@ -35,6 +37,13 @@ if "$DEPMOD" -b "$tmp_dir" $KERNELRELEASE 2>/dev/null; then
        fi
 fi
 rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
+
+if [ "${kmod_version}" -gt 32 ]; then
+       kmod_prefix="$(kmod config | jq -r .module_prefix)"
+       INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${INSTALL_MOD_PATH#${kmod_prefix}"
+       depmod_hack_needed=false
+fi
+
 if $depmod_hack_needed; then
        symlink="$INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules/99.98.$KERNELRELEASE"
        ln -s "$KERNELRELEASE" "$symlink"

(untested, and assuming that kmod module prefix is in kmod >= 32)

Or are I am still missing something?

> Was busybox ever fixed to not require the hack?

I haven't checked that, yet.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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