ACK: [SRU B/F/G LRM] [PATCH 0/1] LP#1919315 -- nvidia.ko assembly failures on end user systems

[Kleber Souza]

On 16.03.21 14:14, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> 
> Kinda makes my head hurt 'cause I don't see where the BUILD script is
> used after objdump has been removed. But I guess its been tested.

The BUILD script seems to be called by 'debian/templates/nvidia.postinst.in'
from the lrm package.

> 
> On 3/16/21 6:26 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> We are seeing assembly failures of nvidia modules leading to signature
>> verification issues.  This is caused indirectly by the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
>> option leading to extra (believed benign) commands in the assembly script.
>> These do not affect the base assembly in the linux-restricted-modules,
>> but in some cases does affect the identicle assembly on end-users system.
>> Is it positied that something external to the assembly package is present
>> on affected systems.
>>
>> This patch drops the extraneous commands on the end-user systems; they
>> are required on the primary to ensure we binaries match.
>>
>> This has been sucessfully tested on the prime kernels for groovy, focal,
>> and bionic; and on the hwe kernels in focal and bionic.
>>
>> Proposing for application to all LRM packages.  Note that we only
>> need to expedite fixes for 5.4 and later kernels as the config changes
>> were not rolled out to 4.15 (yet).
>>
>> -apw
>>
>> Branch: lp/1919315-assembly-failures-on-end-user-system
>>
>> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>>     UBUNTU: [Packaging] quiet (nomially) benign errors in BUILD script
>>
>>    debian/scripts/dkms-build--nvidia-N | 3 +++
>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>