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


    On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    > What crud. I'm even slightly inclined to just let SLES9 be broken, just to
    > let people know how unacceptable it is to look for strings in kernel
    > binaries. But sadly, I don't think the poor users should be penalized for
    > some idiotic SLES developers bad taste.

    Does this fix the problem?

    Linus

    ----
    diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
    index dc3e580..6a56c4f 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>
    @@ -253,7 +254,12 @@ static int version_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
    {
    int len;

    - len = sprintf(page, linux_banner,
    + /* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
    + len = snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE,
    + "Linux version %s"
    + " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
    + " (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
    + " %s\n",
    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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