Ubuntu kernel >= 5.3.0-52.46 breaks DKMS build for wireguard-linux-compat >= 1.0.20200429, patch included

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Pascal,

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:52 PM Pascal Ernster
<pascal.ernster+wireguard at rub.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
>
> [2020-05-05 03:37] Jason A. Donenfeld:
> > Can you confirm to me whether or not this patch fixes the issue on
> > both 19.10 and 18.04-hwe?
> >
> > https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux-compat/commit/?id=1325bedf8ee3d69ed58460b7a8fee96d949f67da
>
> I don't have a 19.10 machine to test on, but at least on an 18.04
> machine with the 5.3.0-52.46 kernel, it works as intended.
>
> However, building the module for the previous 5.3.0-51.44 kernel fails
> now, and it doesn't fail when I use my original patch.

Right. The compat layer, in order to keep it maintainable in the long
term, only supports the latest distro frankenkernel for each distro
release. The latest 14.04, 16.04, ..., RHEL7, RHEL8, SLE 15, and so
forth.

>
> Note that as of now, 5.3.0-51.44 is still the latest "official" HWE
> kernel for 18.04, and 5.3.0-52.46 is only available from Ubuntu's
> "bionic-proposed" repo.

Ahh, you're running -proposed, gotcha. So I guess I should wait until
this hits the main repo. Any idea when they usually do that?

Jason