From be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:15:10 -0700 Subject: Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers 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: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sys.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index dd948a1fca4c..18ee1d2f6474 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ #include #include #include +#include +#include #include #include @@ -44,6 +46,8 @@ #include #include +/* Move somewhere else to avoid recompiling? */ +#include #include #include @@ -1161,6 +1165,34 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem); #define override_architecture(name) 0 #endif +/* + * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0". + * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40 + */ +static int override_release(char __user *release, int len) +{ + int ret = 0; + char buf[len]; + + if (current->personality & UNAME26) { + char *rest = UTS_RELEASE; + int ndots = 0; + unsigned v; + + while (*rest) { + if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3) + break; + if (!isdigit(*rest) && *rest != '.') + break; + rest++; + } + v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40; + snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest); + ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len); + } + return ret; +} + SYSCALL_DEFINE1(newuname, struct new_utsname __user *, name) { int errno = 0; @@ -1170,6 +1202,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(newuname, struct new_utsname __user *, name) errno = -EFAULT; up_read(&uts_sem); + if (!errno && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release))) + errno = -EFAULT; if (!errno && override_architecture(name)) errno = -EFAULT; return errno; @@ -1191,6 +1225,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(uname, struct old_utsname __user *, name) error = -EFAULT; up_read(&uts_sem); + if (!error && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release))) + error = -EFAULT; if (!error && override_architecture(name)) error = -EFAULT; return error; @@ -1225,6 +1261,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(olduname, struct oldold_utsname __user *, name) if (!error && override_architecture(name)) error = -EFAULT; + if (!error && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release))) + error = -EFAULT; return error ? -EFAULT : 0; } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3