ark to rhel rename disabled some configs, podman networking broken

I ran into this trying to use an ELN config on a RHEL 9 system to test some patches, podman could not start a container because the xt_MASQUERADE kernel module did not exist.

It looks like the ark to rhel rename added some configuration files, disabling features and overriding the common configs.

Filtering out the pure renames from that change leaves:

$ git show 7255ff39a404b2d48d9bde0873c08c53a0a302a4 | diffstat
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_BT_LE_L2CAP_ECRED                    |   14 ++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL                            |   12 ++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST               |   15 +++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_SQUASHFS_CHOICE_DECOMP_BY_MOUNT      |   15 +++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_SQUASHFS_COMPILE_DECOMP_MULTI        |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_SQUASHFS_COMPILE_DECOMP_MULTI_PERCPU |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_SQUASHFS_COMPILE_DECOMP_SINGLE       |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_SQUASHFS_DECOMP_SINGLE               |    1 +
 pending-rhel/generic/CONFIG_TDX_GUEST_DRIVER                     |   13 +++++++++++++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER                             |    1 +
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES                           |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES                              |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES                              |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES                               |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_IP_SET                                       |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES                            |    1 +
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_NFT_COMPAT                                   |    2 ++
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_LABELS                          |    1 +
 rhel/generic/CONFIG_PCIE_PTM                                     |    1 +
 rhel/generic/arm/aarch64/CONFIG_SENSORS_LM90                     |    1 +
 20 files changed, 138 insertions(+)

added CWF::TypeARK label

changed the description

I am somewhat confused how we got to this point, as one of the associated MRs should have had merge issues I would think. You will see NETFILTER_XTABLES was intentionally turned off with commit cf047798 !1226 (merged) and (much) later that was reverted with !2267 (merged) the timing makes it look like the rename could have been staged before and merged after, but I am not quite sure.

And now it is clear... The MR 2267 to turn them back on, did so in common, not rhel. The files are there, but since the files exist in rhel, those override the common config. !2267 (merged) was an incorrect change. Clark's original MR was actually correct, and we were very sure to verify that there was 0 change to the generated config files before.

Thanks for looking at this, I was just caught off guard by the failures and had trouble making sense of the git history. Maybe it was a result of the merge order that rename detection made it look like the files were newly created, good to know these are intentionally going away.

mentioned in commit jmflinuxtx/kernel-ark@c4225fea

mentioned in merge request !2402 (merged)

mentioned in commit 708aa8a9

Marking this closed based on the merged content. Please reopen if this issue is not resolved.

closed

mentioned in commit dd6e60e8

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