[NAK] [SRU xenial/artful] LP#1751021 -- i386 retpoline trackers not populated

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu Feb 22 11:45:39 UTC 2018


On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:30:09AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We are not correctly extracting the retpoline tracker information on
> i386 leading to those being empty and thus would always pass.
> 
> Fix the extractor so to handle the different mnemonics used in 32bit mode.
> Also add a checker which fires at insertchanges time to check the whole
> of the ABI.  For each required element check it is present or correctly
> ignored.  Finally add a specific check for the present but empty
> retpoline file and report those.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to xenial and artful.

Bah just found a bug in this.  Will resubmit.

-apw




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