When a kernel-debug package is installed, it should only be set as default
if DEFAULTDEBUG=yes is set in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. But currently there's
no default field set in /etc/zipl.conf so the implicit order used to sort
boot entries is used.
The debug kernels contains a +debug suffix which makes them be sorted with
more precedence than non-debug kernels by the RPM sorting algorithm:
rpm --eval '%{lua: print(rpm.vercmp("4.18.0-193.el8.s390x+debug", "4.18.0-193.el8.s390x"))}'
1
So using the implicit order when a debug kernel is installed and a default
is not set leads to a wrong behavior.
The zipl kernel-install script attempts to set a default entry if has to,
but only if one is present in the zipl.conf file. Take also into account
the case when there isn't one to avoid using the implicit sorting and not
cover these corner cases like the one with the debug kernel.
Resolves: rhbz#1698363
The bootloaders add a BOOT_IMAGE parameter that is present in the kernel
command line exposed via the /proc/cmdline virtual file. If this param
is added to the kernel cmdline in the BLS snippet, it will be duplicated.
Resolves: #1782321
In the commit 63205a4dc4c400f75571869d87682c0cdb475830, there was
introduced a change in the decision logic of the 20-zipl-kernel.install
script. Specifically, whether the Boot Loader Specification (BLS) is
used. Instead of just checking the existence of the /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
file, the existence of the /boot/loader/entries directory is also
checked.
More thorough testing revealed that the above commit covers only the
case when a new kernel is added. However, the remaining cases should
also be covered. That means the case when a rescue kernel is added and
the case when some kernel is removed.
Resolves: #1778243Fixes: #1755899
Signed-off-by: Jan Hlavac <jhlavac@redhat.com>
The /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/20-zipl-kernel.install script checks if the
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg script exists to determine whether a BLS config has
to be used or not.
This file should not exist in RHEL8 but it does in some corner cases for
example when doing an in-place upgrade from RHEL7 to RHEL8 since it is
required by the LEAPP tool for the RPM transaction to succeeded.
To cover that, not only check if the /sbin/new-kernel-pkg is not present
but also if the /boot/loader/entries directory exists and use either of
these as a condition to use a BLS configuration.
The kernel-install plugin removed the "${BOOT_DIR_ABS%/*}" directory that
was created unconditionally by the kernel-install script. Since the other
plugins used the existence of this directory as the indication on whether
systemd-boot was used or not.
But now the kernel-install script doesn't unconditionally create this dir
anymore and if $BOOT/$MACHINE_ID exists, so there's no need anymore to do
any cleanup.
