modsign vs build-id

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 19:51:34 UTC 2007


On 08/14/2007 03:48 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> Ya got me, but upon unpacking the initrd, modinfo tells me the bits in
> the initrd have the right vermagic. However, the file sizes don't match.
> In fact, they aren't even close.
> 
> # (cd /tmp/initrd-104/lib; ll ext3.ko)
> -rw------- 1 root root 189096 2007-08-14 15:31 ext3.ko
> 
> # (cd /lib/modules/2.6.23-0.104.rc3.vsc.fc8/kerne/fs/ext3; ll ext3.ko)
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2719832 2007-08-14 12:46 ext3.ko
> 

Looks like one has the debug info in it and the other doesn't.




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