hardy custom binary kernels have incorrect version reported in /proc/version_signature
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Andy Whitcroft |
Bug Description
SRU Justification:
Impact: all binary-custom kernels including those in EC2 report an incorrect and very old kernel version via /proc/version_
Fix: see patch attached below
Testcase: compare the contents of /proc/version_
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All custom binaries are built with the wrong contents in the /proc/version_
$ uname -a && cat /proc/version_
Linux ip-10-36-7-174 2.6.24-29-xen #1 SMP Thu Apr 21 20:44:30 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 2.6.24-4.6-generic
This leads to great confusion identifying the kernel, which is particularly serious on -xen where the kernel can come from outside the domU.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Hardy): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Hardy): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: verification-needed-hardy |
Proposed patch.