Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

From: Herbert Poetzl
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 13:29:36 EST


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:26:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, even moving this to linux_banner doesnt work, just because
> > __initdata is in a different section.
>
> Heh. Let's just change the "version_read_proc" string to not trigger.
>
> Something like this instead (which replaces the "Linux" with "%s" in
> /proc, and just takes it from "utsname()->sysname" instead. So now you can
> lie and call yourself "OS X" in your virtual partition if you want to ;)

cool!

should definitely work for all 'known' cases

thanks,
Herbert

> Linus
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
> index dc3e580..92ea774 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
> #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
> +#include <linux/compile.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> #include <asm/io.h>
> @@ -253,8 +254,15 @@ static int version_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
> {
> int len;
>
> - len = sprintf(page, linux_banner,
> - utsname()->release, utsname()->version);
> + /* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
> + len = snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE,
> + "%s version %s"
> + " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
> + " (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
> + " %s\n",
> + utsname()->sysname,
> + utsname()->release,
> + utsname()->version);
> return proc_calc_metrics(page, start, off, count, eof, len);
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index e8bfac3..b0c4a05 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
> #include <asm/byteorder.h>
> #include <asm/bug.h>
>
> -extern const char linux_banner[];
> -
> #define INT_MAX ((int)(~0U>>1))
> #define INT_MIN (-INT_MAX - 1)
> #define UINT_MAX (~0U)
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 036f97c..c783695 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -483,6 +483,12 @@ void __init __attribute__((weak)) smp_setup_processor_id(void)
> {
> }
>
> +static char __initdata linux_banner[] =
> + "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE
> + " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
> + " (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
> + " " UTS_VERSION "\n";
> +
> asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> {
> char * command_line;
> @@ -509,7 +515,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> boot_cpu_init();
> page_address_init();
> printk(KERN_NOTICE);
> - printk(linux_banner, UTS_RELEASE, UTS_VERSION);
> + printk(linux_banner);
> setup_arch(&command_line);
> unwind_setup();
> setup_per_cpu_areas();
> diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
> index 2a5dfcd..9d96d36 100644
> --- a/init/version.c
> +++ b/init/version.c
> @@ -33,8 +33,3 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
> },
> };
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
> -
> -const char linux_banner[] =
> - "Linux version %s (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
> - LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") %s\n";
> -
-
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