peter/spectre-meltdown-checker
peter/spectre-meltdown-checker
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker.git synced 2024-12-22 11:08:04 +01:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

revert to a simpler check_vmlinux()

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Stéphane Lesimple 2018-01-20 12:26:26 +01:00
parent de6590cd09
commit a1bd233c49
1 changed files with 1 additions and 11 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

10
spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
View File

@ -482,16 +482,6 @@ vmlinux_err=''
check_vmlinux() check_vmlinux()
{ {
readelf -h "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 && return 0 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
return 1 return 1
} }