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Use dmesg(8) in fw_update(8) instead of dmesg.boot
26.12.2025 00:03, Andrew Hewus Fresh пишет:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 12:55:11PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 25.12.2025 19:07, Theo de Raadt пишет:
>>>> Hmm.
>>>>
>>>> I think we chose dmesg.boot for a reason before, but I'm not sure I
>>>> remember the reason.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we thought $(dmesg) could have rolled over with noisy debug messages,
>>>> and thus hidden names of devices we want to identify, and therefore
>>>> dmesg.boot was more reliable?
>>>>
>>>> Here's a thought: Should we look at both $(dmesg) and dmesg.boot ??
>>>
>>> I certainly have machines where dmesg gets flooded with log spam,
>>> so any $(dmesg) with a few hours of uptime won't have a single device.
>>>
>>> If fw_update stops looking at dmesg.boot, there won't be any chance
>>> for it to update existing firmware, right?
>>
>> Look at my suggestion.
>
> Or what I said on this:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 08:01:28AM -0800, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote:
>> The previous implementation looked at both, I assume in case anything
>> had "fallen off" the dmesg filling up. I think it is OK not to make
>> that more intrusive change because we would have checked at boot and we
>> also look for updates to already installed firmware. The only failure
>> point I see is if dmesg had filled up past dmesg.boot, new firmware came
>> to be that didn't previously exist, and someone wanted to install it
>> without rebooting.
>>
>> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD/FwUpdate.pm#L158-L175
>
> In any case, here is a patch to scan both. I haven't tried my alpha to
> see how much it slows things down, but folks are showing up to visit so
> I won't have too much time for revisions today.
Overall reads fine to me.
OK kn with the fix inline.
>
> Index: fw_update.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/fw_update/fw_update.8,v
> diff -u -p -r1.8 fw_update.8
> --- fw_update.8 22 Mar 2025 19:51:29 -0000 1.8
> +++ fw_update.8 25 Dec 2025 20:56:42 -0000
> @@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ If used in conjunction with
> .Fl a ,
> delete firmware for all drivers.
> .It Fl D Ar path
> -Use the
> -.Xr dmesg 8
> -output from
> +Use the content of
> .Ar path
> -rather than
> +rather than output from
> +.Xr dmesg 8
> +and
> .Pa /var/run/dmesg.boot
> to determine which firmware are needed.
> .It Fl F
> Index: fw_update.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/fw_update/fw_update.sh,v
> diff -u -p -r1.65 fw_update.sh
> --- fw_update.sh 12 May 2025 23:48:12 -0000 1.65
> +++ fw_update.sh 25 Dec 2025 20:56:42 -0000
> @@ -239,12 +239,25 @@ verify_existing() {
> }
>
> devices_in_dmesg() {
> + if [ "${DMESG:-}" ]; then
> + _devices_in_dmesg "$DMESG"
> + return
> + fi
> +
> + dmesg > "$FD_DIR/dmesg"
> +
> + _devices_in_dmesg /var/run/dmesg.boot
> + _devices_in_dmesg "$FD_DIR/dmesg"
> +}
> +
> +_devices_in_dmesg() {
> + local _dmesg=$1
> local IFS
> local _d _m _dmesgtail _last='' _nl='
> '
>
> # The dmesg can contain multiple boots, only look in the last one
> - _dmesgtail="$( echo ; sed -n 'H;/^OpenBSD/h;${g;p;}' "$DMESG" )"
> + _dmesgtail="$( echo ; sed -n 'H;/^OpenBSD/h;${g;p;}' "$_dmesg" )"
>
> grep -v '^[[:space:]]*#' "$FWPATTERNS" |
> while read -r _d _m; do
> @@ -489,7 +502,7 @@ set_fw_paths() {
> if [ ! "$_version" ]; then
> _version=$(sed -nE \
> '/^OpenBSD ([0-9]+\.[0-9][^ ]*) .*/{s//\1/;h;};${g;p;}' \
> - "$DMESG")
> + "${DMESG:-/var/run/dmesg.boot")
} missing before ")
>
> # If VNAME was set in the environment instead of the DMESG,
> # looking in the DMESG for "current" is wrong.
> @@ -514,7 +527,6 @@ usage() {
>
> ALL=false
> LIST=false
> -DMESG=/var/run/dmesg.boot
>
> while getopts :adD:Flnp:v name
> do
> @@ -561,7 +573,7 @@ if [ "${FWURL:-}" ] && ! "$INSTALL" ; th
> usage
> fi
>
> -if [ ! -s "$DMESG" ]; then
> +if [ "${DMESG:-}" ] && [ ! -s "$DMESG" ]; then
> warn "${0##*/}: $DMESG: No such file or directory"
> exit 1
> fi
>
Use dmesg(8) in fw_update(8) instead of dmesg.boot