ACK / APPLIED[Unstable]: [SRU X/B/F/G/U] LP: #1908710
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Dec 18 23:17:29 UTC 2020
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 09:55:57AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> 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.
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Applied to unstable/master, thanks!
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