FreeBSD Errata Notices
2016-Jan-14 10:03 UTC
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-16:01.filemon
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Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: filemon and bmake meta-mode stability issues
Category: core
Module: filemon
Announced: 2016-01-14
Credits: Bryan Drewery
Affects: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE
Corrected: 2015-09-09 17:15:13 UTC (stable/10, 10.2-STABLE)
2016-01-14 09:10:46 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p9)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches,
and the following sections, please visit
<URL:https://security.freebsd.org/>.
I. Background
In FreeBSD 10.2, /usr/bin/make is the NetBSD bmake utility. bmake has
a feature called meta-mode [1], which can make use of the filemon(4) kernel
module to perform reliable update builds and provide better build
dependencies.
[1] http://www.crufty.net/sjg/blog/freebsd-meta-mode.htm
II. Problem Description
Multiple stability and locking problems have been fixed in the filemon(4)
kernel module. Without these fixes, using meta-mode and filemon(4) on a
FreeBSD 10.2 system may result in kernel panics.
III. Impact
For the jails and virtual machines used by the FreeBSD Jenkins Continuous
Integration builders, it is desirable to use released versions FreeBSD.
This will allow us to set up builders to test building FreeBSD-CURRENT with
meta-mode, using a FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p9 build host.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available for the filemon stability problems.
V. Solution
Perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security
branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
2) To update your present system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64
platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
3) To update your present system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-16:01/filemon.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-16:01/filemon.patch.asc
# gpg --verify filemon.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile your kernel as described in
<URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html> and reboot the
system.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.
Branch/path Revision
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stable/10 r287598
releng/10.2 r293893
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To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a
machine with Subversion installed:
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
The latest revision of this Errata Notice is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-16:01.filemon.asc>
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