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| author | Stéphane Lesimple <speed47_github@speed47.net> | 2018-01-20 12:26:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Stéphane Lesimple <speed47_github@speed47.net> | 2018-01-20 12:26:26 +0100 |
| commit | a1bd233c493a67464f202f6003722aba75bc9ede (patch) | |
| tree | ee3aceabb0c56a1f26ae63f9370886f92207462a | |
| parent | de6590cd09f74be30e33766be5f63e50730fbef4 (diff) | |
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revert to a simpler check_vmlinux()
| -rwxr-xr-x | spectre-meltdown-checker.sh | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh index 30828cc..6690968 100755 --- a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh +++ b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh @@ -481,17 +481,7 @@ vmlinux='' vmlinux_err='' check_vmlinux() { - readelf -h "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 && return 0 - # normally we would just use readelf to test for the binary, and it would be sufficient. - # but for some archs/distros it doesn't work well (issue #82), so we add a dumber check: - # uncompressed kernels always have the following string present - if ! which strings >/dev/null 2>&1; then - vmlinux_err="missing 'strings' tool, please install it, usually it's in the 'binutils' package" - return 0 - else - strings "$1" | grep -q '^Linux version ' && return 0 - fi - # not found: kernel not valid + readelf -h "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 && return 0 return 1 } |