On 25 January 2018 at 23:28, Michael Lange <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:23:38 +0000 > Michael Fothergill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I am continuing the discussion of the kernel 4.14.15 compilation in the > > Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9 post in a new post. > > > > The reason I am running with this kernel and not the 4.15.0 rc9 kernel > > that is now available on kernel.org is that: > > > > 1. It is stable > > > > 2. I have never tried to compile a kernel in Debian before and want to > > make it a bit easier for me the first time would try. > > > > 3. kernel 4.14.15 does have the KPTI and retpoline patches in it, so > > it is a fair candidate for the GCC8 compiler to produce a kernel that > > the patch checker could confirm has these meltdown and spectre fixes > > are properly set up and active. > > Ok, my advice if you don't want to give up yet :-) > I installed libelf-dev and did make clean. Then I copied over the config file and did you "Alas poor Yorick" Yes""|oldconfig command followed by make.kpkg again and I think it worked: root@mikef-PC:/usr/src/linux-4.14.15# !498 make-kpkg exec make kpkg_version=13.018+nmu1 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/ minimal.mk debian ====== making target debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian [new prereqs: ]====== This is kernel package version 13.018+nmu1. test -d debian || mkdir debian test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules for file in ChangeLog Control Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do \ cp -f /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/; \ done cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/kernel-package/ChangeLog': No such file or directory for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do \ cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir ./debian/; \ done test -f debian/control || sed -e 's/=V/4.14.15/g' \ -e 's/=D/4.14.15-10.00.Custom/g' -e 's/=A/amd64/g' \ -e 's/=SA//g' \ -e 's/=I//g' \ -e 's/=CV/4.14/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[email protected]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \ -e 's/=R//g' /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control test -f debian/changelog || sed -e 's/=V/4.14.15/g' \ -e 's/=D/4.14.15-10.00.Custom/g' -e 's/=A/amd64/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[email protected]>/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog chmod 0644 debian/control debian/changelog test -d ./debian/stamp || mkdir debian/stamp make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' ====== making target debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf [new prereqs: ]====== make ARCH=x86_64 \ oldconfig; make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config # make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' make ARCH=x86_64 prepare make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig SYSTBL arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h SYSHDR arch/x86/include/generated/asm/unistd_32_ia32.h SYSHDR arch/x86/include/generated/asm/unistd_64_x32.h SYSTBL arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h HYPERCALLS arch/x86/include/generated/asm/xen-hypercalls.h SYSHDR arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h SYSHDR arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h SYSHDR arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_x32.h HOSTCC arch/x86/tools/relocs_32.o HOSTCC arch/x86/tools/relocs_64.o HOSTCC arch/x86/tools/relocs_common.o HOSTLD arch/x86/tools/relocs CHK include/config/kernel.release UPD include/config/kernel.release WRAP arch/x86/include/generated/asm/clkdev.h WRAP arch/x86/include/generated/asm/dma-contiguous.h WRAP arch/x86/include/generated/asm/early_ioremap.h WRAP arch/x86/include/generated/asm/mcs_spinlock.h WRAP arch/x86/include/generated/asm/mm-arch-hooks.h CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h UPD include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h CC arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o AS arch/x86/purgatory/stack.o AS arch/x86/purgatory/setup-x86_64.o CC arch/x86/purgatory/sha256.o AS arch/x86/purgatory/entry64.o CC arch/x86/purgatory/string.o LD arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro BIN2C arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c CC kernel/bounds.s CHK include/generated/bounds.h UPD include/generated/bounds.h CHK include/generated/timeconst.h UPD include/generated/timeconst.h CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s CHK include/generated/asm-offsets.h UPD include/generated/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh DESCEND objtool HOSTCC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/fixdep.o HOSTLD /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/fixdep-in.o LINK /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/fixdep CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/help.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/pager.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/parse-options.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/run-command.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/sigchain.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/subcmd-config.o LD /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/libsubcmd-in.o AR /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/libsubcmd.a GEN /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.o LD /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/arch/x86/objtool-in.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/builtin-orc.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/check.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/orc_gen.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/orc_dump.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/elf.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/special.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/objtool.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/libstring.o CC /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/str_error_r.o LD /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o LINK /usr/src/linux-4.14.15/tools/objtool/objtool make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' echo done > debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/conf/full-changelog make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' ====== making target debian/stamp/conf/full-changelog [new prereqs: ]====== for file in ChangeLog Control Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do \ cp -f /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/; \ done cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/kernel-package/ChangeLog': No such file or directory for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do \ cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir ./debian/; \ done install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules sed -e 's/=V/4.14.15/g' \ -e 's/=D/4.14.15-10.00.Custom/g' -e 's/=A/amd64/g' \ -e 's/=SA//g' \ -e 's/=I//g' \ -e 's/=CV/4.14/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[email protected]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \ -e 's/=R//g' /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control sed -e 's/=V/4.14.15/g' -e 's/=D/4.14.15-10.00.Custom/g' \ -e 's/=A/amd64/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[email protected]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog chmod 0644 debian/control debian/changelog make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' make[2]: 'debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf' is up to date. make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' echo done > debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian exec debian/rules nothing to be done. I think it's worked. I am going to back to the list of tasks I made on this figure out what to do next to install it so grub can see it etc and I can reboot and try to run it and log in etc. Cheers MF > > Don't try to force the use of gcc-8 until you know that everything runs > properly with the default compiler. > > Maybe you should follow the advice from the previously posted error > message: > > "make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' > Makefile:942: *** "Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, > please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel". Stop." > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > (Ignore the messages about the debian directory.) > If similar messages as the above appear again, try to figure out what > needs to be additionally installed (some *-dev packages might still be > missing). > > Once you get past the first few minutes of the procedure when using the > default compiler and you see how one module after the other is compiled, > hit Ctrl-C, do "make mrproper" and start over again with gcc-8. > > This is just my 2¢, but I believe "debugging" one thing at a time is the > more promising approach here. > > Good luck (and for now good night :) > > Michael > > > > .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. > > Virtue is a relative term. > -- Spock, "Friday's Child", stardate 3499.1 > >
