Bug 720324

Summary: File does not correctly identify a linux kernel image on ppc64
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component: fileAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Description Karel Srot 2011-07-11 11:52:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-*
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.ppc64:       ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.ppc64.debug: ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.ppc64:       ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.ppc64.debug: ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.ppc64:            ELF 64-bit MSB shared object,
64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
file-5.04-9.el6

How reproducible:
always

Expected results:
something similar to x86_64 output
on x86_64:

file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage,
version 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x901, swap_dev
0x3, Normal VGA
Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2011-08-23 08:51:49 UTC 
I was trying to find something useful in ppc kernels to identify it as kernel instead of PowerPC binary, but I haven't found anything which could be used. There's no header like in i386 kernels and also no special bytes anywhere to identify it.

I will close it as WONTFIX.