On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:58:31AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> If CONFIG_SECCOMP=n, /proc/self/status includes an empty line. This causes
> the iotop application to bail out with an error message.
>
> File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/data.py", line 196,
> in parse_proc_pid_status
> key, value = line.split(':\t', 1)
> ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>
> The problem is seen in v4.9.y but not upstream because commit af884cd4a5ae6
> ("proc: report no_new_privs state") has not been backported to v4.9.y.
> The backport of commit fae1fa0fc6cc ("proc: Provide details on speculation
> flaw mitigations") tried to address the resulting differences but was
> wrong, introducing the problem.
>
> Fixes: 51ef9af2a35b ("proc: Provide details on speculation flaw mitigations")
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch only applies to v4.9.y. v4.4.y also needs to be fixed (see
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg279131.html), but the fix
> is slightly different. v4.14.y and later are not affected.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
