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

[Brad Figg]

On 02/16/2012 04:28 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
>
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