QRT kernel-security fails on /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict

[C de-Avillez]

While regression-testing Oneric backported kernel on Lucid, I hit the following error on kernel-security:

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FAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict is enabled
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test-kernel-security.py", line 1182, in test_095_kernel_symbols_acl
    self._test_sysctl_value('kernel/kptr_restrict', expected, exists=expected)
  File "/home/ubuntu/qrt-test-kernel/testlib.py", line 930, in _test_sysctl_value
    self.assertEquals(exists, os.path.exists(sysctl), sysctl)
AssertionError: /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict

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Ran 50 tests in 19.545s

FAILED (failures=1)

This happened for all kernels tested.

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

This is a failing in the qrt test suite. It is expecting kptr_restrict to be on for the newer kernels but kptr_restrict needs to be enabled by userspace with a sysctl which Lucid is not doing.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Given this is not a regression, I am re-tagging bug 878811 as qa-testing-passed. Subject matter experts should decide on what to do with this bug.

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

A patch to fix the issue in qrt has been committed. Please verify that this resolves the issue.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

re-run test on Lucid with the Oneiric backported kernel; no errors reported. This looks good.

On the other hand, I got this error on a Maverick-onMaverick kernel SRU test.