[SRU X/B/F/G/U] LP: #1908710
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
cascardo at canonical.com
Fri Dec 18 12:55:57 UTC 2020
When sending the fix for CVE-2020-27777, the following regression was
introduced. It should only affect IBM POWER LPARs, though, and a feature that
allows testing for failures, named error injection. So, marked as Low.
[Impact]
errinjct open fails on IBM POWER LPAR. That prevents error injection
tests to be performed.
[Test case]
Run errinjct open on an LPAR.
Success case:
$ sudo errinjct open
RTAS error injection facility open, token = 1
Failure case:
$ sudo errinjct open
errinjct: Could not open RTAS error injection facility
errinjct: librtas: open: Unexpected I/O error
[Fix]
Typo in RTAS filters.
[Regression potential]
errinjct could still be broken, or other RTAS operations could break,
which could even prevent booting on any IBM POWER systems.
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