Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 12:17 -0600, Neil Tallim wrote: > I was able to confirm that the problem doesn't occur with Debian's > 4.19 series on unrelated hardware, however, and it looks like the > problem has been resolved for a while in stock kernels. OK, thanks for confirming this. > https://lists

Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-03 Thread Neil Tallim
> Any chance you could upgrade to either the Debian kernel or one based > on the Debian kernel or on 4.19 mainline and see if any of them fix it? > > Also, I suggest you try to get those quirks fixed in Linux mainline, > so that you don't have to keep building Linux yourself :) I'm afraid upgradin

Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 iotop: crashes with versions of Linux that insert spaces into /proc/*/status On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 11:46 -0600, Neil Tallim wrote: > I am running a mostly vanilla upstream kernel (for a class of > special-purpose devices that have some unusual quir

Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-02 Thread Neil Tallim
Ah, then that probably explains why it hasn't come up as a bug here before and I do apologise for the interruption, and greatly appreciate how quickly you responded. I am running a mostly vanilla upstream kernel (for a class of special-purpose devices that have some unusual quirks) that does incl

Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
Control: tags -1 + unreproducible fixed-upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://repo.or.cz/iotop.git/commit/7c51ce0e29bd135c216f18e18f0c4ab769af0d6f https://repo.or.cz/iotop.git/commit/0392b205b5c3973a326721c2e9f97f0fa2eefa82 On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 16:43 -0600, Neil Tallim wrote: > I'm afraid the

Bug#926207: iotop: unable to run on kernels with retpoline (spectre)

2019-04-01 Thread Neil Tallim
Package: iotop Version: 0.6-24-g733f3f8-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream I'm afraid there's a flaw in the version of iotop available in Debian (even in sid): retpoline support adds a blank line to /proc//status, which iotop was not able to deal with before May of 2018. The effect of this is a