dmidecode does not byte-swap for SMBIOS >= 2.6
Bug #1851676 reported by
Peter Jose De Sousa
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dmidecode (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Hi,
On VMWare 6.5 and higher (HW version 13 and higher) when decoding /sys/class/
This manifests itself by breaking provisioning in Kubernetes and could cause other issues down the line. Other OS such as redhat have already patched this in their releases.
A demonstration of the issue can be found in this pastebin:
https:/
VMWare Issue: https:/
Cheers!
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- dmidecode decodes /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial incorrectly + dmidecode does not byte-swap for SMBIOS >= 2.6 |
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Hi Peter, can you elaborate on this part please: "manifests itself by breaking provisioning in Kubernetes."
Can you describe the behavior you're seeing?