Bug 677935

Summary:	missing ')' in the output of "file /boot/vmlinuz*"
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component:	file	Assignee:	Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	6.1
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Description Milos Malik 2011-02-16 10:14:18 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
file-5.04-6.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
(i686 machine)
# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.i686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.i686: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.i686 (mockbu, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x901, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA

(x86_64 machine)
# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.x86_64 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.x86_64: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-114.0.1.el6.x86_64 (mock, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x901, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA


Actual results:
')' is missing

Expected results:
')' is present

Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2011-02-22 14:07:55 UTC

Missing '(' is not "typical" File bug. "(" is part of this kernel version string. File loads max 32-byte string from files, so the version string is not complete and therefore the ')' is missing.

32 bytes limit can be increased by patch from Bug 462378, but we can increase it only to 64, because that's what upstream did. From my tests 64 bytes are not enough to display linux version string, so I think I'll use NOT A BUG here.

Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2011-02-22 14:16:57 UTC

Hm, Don't understand how it happend, but correct bug is Bug 656395