Additional LKM not added after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 (maybe be a bug in "libkmod")

[Lancillotto]

Hi, I have reported on Dracut GitHub the following issue https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/426 .

After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 (Linuxmint 19) dracut does not add additional drivers.

After a lot of investigation I found a problem into the libkmod.

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Here is a sample code to replicate the issue:
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#include <libkmod.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define _cleanup_(x) __attribute__((cleanup(x)))

static inline void kmod_module_unref_listp(struct kmod_list **p) {
        if (*p)
                kmod_module_unref_list(*p);
}

#define _cleanup_kmod_module_unref_list_ _cleanup_(kmod_module_unref_listp)

static inline void kmod_module_info_free_listp(struct kmod_list **p) {
        if (*p)
                kmod_module_info_free_list(*p);
}

#define _cleanup_kmod_module_info_free_list_ _cleanup_(kmod_module_info_free_listp)

static inline void kmod_unrefp(struct kmod_ctx **p) {
        kmod_unref(*p);
}

#define _cleanup_kmod_unref_ _cleanup_(kmod_unrefp)

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    _cleanup_kmod_unref_ struct kmod_ctx *ctx = NULL;
    _cleanup_kmod_module_unref_list_ struct kmod_list *list = NULL;
    int err;

    //char alias[2048] = "cryptd";
    char alias[2048] = "ahci cryptd";

    char kerneldir[256] = "/lib/modules/4.15.0-24-generic/";

    printf("libkmod tester...\n");

    ctx = kmod_new(kerneldir, NULL);
    err = kmod_module_new_from_lookup(ctx, alias, &list);

    if (err < 0) {
        printf("Error (%d) looking for aliases \"%s\"\n.", err, alias);
        return 1;
    }

    printf("Got list pointer 0x%lx .\n.", (unsigned long)(void *)list);

    return 0;
}

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And here the script to build and run it:
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#!/bin/bash

CUR_DIR=$(dirname $0)
EXE_NAME=kmod-tester

gcc -Wall *.c -lkmod -o ${EXE_NAME} && \
${CUR_DIR}/${EXE_NAME}

Regards,
Antonio Petricca

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lsb_release -rd
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Description: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release: 19

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apt-cache policy libkmod2
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libkmod2:
  Installed: 24-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 24-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 24-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Lancillotto (antonio-petricca)]

Sorry, could the admin move my post to the dracut package?

[Lancillotto (antonio-petricca)]

I have added on my own affected packages. Thank you

[Lancillotto (antonio-petricca)]

The solution is here: https://github.com/antonio-petricca/buddy-linux/issues/2 .

[Stefan Puiu (stefanpuiuro)]

I'm also seeing this. I have a bionic VM running in VirtualBox and, a few days ago, I wanted to install the newer version of the guest additions, and got an error from dracut:

dracut: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.NHsS4s/initramfs --kerneldir /lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic/ -m crc32c

If I comment the 'add_drivers+="crc32c "' in /etc/dracut.conf.d/10-debian.conf, I'm able to run the dracut command line above just fine.

[laszlo gombos (gombi)]

This issue can no longer be reproduced with v059-4 and should be closed.