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| author | Alkorin <github@alkorin.fr> | 2018-01-08 15:34:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Alkorin <github@alkorin.fr> | 2018-01-08 16:51:20 +0100 |
| commit | debd10b517f972131dd8e411532922efc51faa32 (patch) | |
| tree | 63a7e5aeb2e354429b2e481539d716f1ff4a0360 | |
| parent | 21f81ff5c93008cdc7ef5bc17bd83d84244478ab (diff) | |
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Detect if 'strings' is present
| -rwxr-xr-x | spectre-meltdown-checker.sh | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh index 0662754..95f625c 100755 --- a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh +++ b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh @@ -280,8 +280,12 @@ if [ "$kpti_support" = 0 -a -n "$vmlinux" ]; then # same as above but in case we don't have System.map and only vmlinux, look for the # nopti option that is part of the patch (kernel command line option) kpti_can_tell=1 - if strings "$vmlinux" | grep -qw nopti; then - kpti_support=1 + if ! which strings >/dev/null 2>&1; then + pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "missing 'strings' tool, please install it, usually it's in the binutils package" + else + if strings "$vmlinux" | grep -qw nopti; then + kpti_support=1 + fi fi fi |