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Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998902
Title:
merge wireguard into the kernel
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Status in linux source package in Focal:
Incomplete
Bug description:
[Impact]
In older kernels, like focal, Wireguard used to be maintained as an
external module (wireguard-linux-compat dkms). This dkms is not
maintained anymore, but upstream maintainer periodically provides
backported patches for older kernels (like 5.4) in this git repository
https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux.
In order to properly support Wireguard with all the recent security
updates, fixes, etc. it would be more efficient for us to apply the
backported patch set officially provided by the upstream maintainer,
instead of maintaining these changes in a separate dkms.
[Test case]
We need to figure out a proper test case to verify that wireguard is
applied and it's working correctly.
[Fix]
Apply the backported wireguard patch set provided by the upstream
maintainer as UBUNTU SAUCE patches.
[Where things could go wrong]
We don't have a precise plan to keep the patches updated after some
SRU patches are applied to our kernel. A quick and dirty solution
could be to revert the wireguard patch set entirely, apply the SRU
patches, then re-apply the latest wireguard patch set on top. But we
probably need to figure out a better workflow.
Also this patch set is probably going to conflict with wireguard-
linux-compat dkms, but that is the whole point, we want to deprecate
this dkms and merge wireguard into our kernel directly.
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