klibc initramfs in debian (and I think Ubunutu as well) allows the 'iscsi_target_ip=' cmdline parameter to specify an iscsi device attachment. The cloud-init code to check "whether this system has klibc initramfs network config or not" checks if the 'ip=' string is present in the cmdline. The python code to do this (https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/master/cloudinit/net/cmdline.py#L75) will match any parameter in the cmdline that contains 'ip='. For iSCSI volumes, the code still works (by accident?) because the next line checks for an open-iscsi interface file, which should exist if we are using iSCSI.
However, it raises the possibility that there are other commandline parameters being used out in the wild that contain 'ip=' that may erroneously be marked by cloud-init as specifying an initramfs network config option. An example fix would be using a regular expression to check that either whitespace or beginning of the line precedes 'ip'.
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