On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > Right, so the thing to do is to run a build with the commit applied,
> > > without any -j arguments and V=1, logging the output (so that predictable
> > > output can be generated).
> > > 
> > > Then run the same thing with the commit reverted, again logging it.  Then
> > > diff the two and see what's different.
> > 
> > OK, I captured the output.  No diffs, as of course reverting things
> > means one kernel was called 3.15-rc1 and one 3.15-rc1+ which meant more or 
> > less every line changed.
> > 
> > It seems that on stock 3.15-rc1 (which fails to build) after running 
> > depmod it kicks into
> > 
> >     restore_upstream_debianization
> > 
> > which goes down a path which causes the file permission failures
> > 
> > Wheras 3.15-rc1 with the problem commit reverted this doesn't happen.
> > 
> > This is a really weird bug, I've tried reverting individual hunks of the 
> > problem commit manually and it is not clear at all to me what is 
> > triggering this.
> 
> OK, in debian/image.mk we have this:
> 
>   ifeq ($(strip $(HAVE_INST_PATH)),)
>         test ! -f System.map ||  cp System.map                         \
>                         $(TMPTOP)/$(IMAGEDIR)/System.map-$(KERNELRELEASE);
>         test ! -f System.map ||  chmod 644                             \
>                         $(TMPTOP)/$(IMAGEDIR)/System.map-$(KERNELRELEASE);
>         cp $(kimagesrc) $(kimagedest)
>   else
>         $(restore_upstream_debianization)
>         $(MAKE) $(EXTRAV_ARG) INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)           \
>                 
> INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE)  \
>                 INSTALL_PATH=$(INT_IMAGE_DESTDIR) $(CROSS_ARG) 
> $(KPKG_KBUILD_INSTALL_TARGET)
>   endif
> 
> 
> So in the good case it goes down the if, in the bad case down the else.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming that the ($(strip $(HAVE_INST_PATH)),) is being confused by
> the INSTALL_DTBS_PATH introduced by the changeset.
> 
> So I guess that makes this a debian bug?

And it looks like this was reported to the list earlier and I somehow 
missed it :(

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/3/333

Vince
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