Subject: bug#26155: Test brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies fails if /proc/cmdline exists but is not readable

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:01:36 -0400

This bug ended up in the wrong package due to missing line breaks.
I've reassigned it to diffutils.

[email-masked] wrote:

> Package: diffutilsVersion: 3.5HiThe test
> tests/brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies fails with&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cat:
> /proc/cmdline: Permission deniedif /proc/cmdline exists but is not
> readable. This is for example the case on a Linux kernel with
> grsecurity patchset and option GRKERNSEC_PROC_USER enabled.The fix is
> easy. The script tests/brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies checks in line
> 13 only for exists (test -f) of $boot (=
> /proc/cmdline):&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; test -f $boot || skip_ no $boot
> filemaking it check for readability (test -r) solves the problem (as
> the test is now correctly skipped):&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; test -r $boot ||
> skip_ file $boot not readableKind regardsjulama