1. 25 Aug, 2011 1 commit
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers · be27425d
      Andi Kleen authored
      I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
      version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
      work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
      because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.
      
      For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
      we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.
      
        $ uname -a
        Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
      
        $ hpacucli ctrl all show
      
        Error: No controllers detected.
      
        $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
        hpacucli-8.75-12.0
      
      Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
      sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
      sys.platform() == "linux2":
      
        https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564
      
      It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
      '==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
      programs.
      
      This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
      2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.
      
      I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
      compatibility to existing programs is important.
      
      Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
      around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)
      
      To use:
      
        wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
        gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
        ./uname26 program
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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