Bug#1001795: sysvinit-core: Time parsing bug in shutdown

[Mark Hindley]

Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream
Control: fixed -1 2.98

Jan,

Thanks for this.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Jan Korbel wrote:
> Package: sysvinit-core
> Version: 2.96-7
> 
> Hello.
> 
> There is a bug in time parsing of shutdown command.
> Because of this bug it is not possible to shutdown VM by qemu guest
> agent.
> 
> Bugged version of sysvinit is in Debian 11, Debian 10 is fine.
> 
> Hardcoded command of qemu guest agent (commands-posix.c):
> 
> execle("/sbin/shutdown", "shutdown", "-h", shutdown_flag, "+0",
>  "hypervisor initiated shutdown", (char*)NULL, environ);
> 
> Exactly:
> 
> /sbin/shutdown -h -P +0 hypervisor initiated shutdown
> 
> Problematic is "+0" time. "0" or "now" is ok.
> 
> I found this upstream commit:
> 
> https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git/commit/?id=462a92ce2adb3f9e7d8c55301d8eb4ba2b15830c

Yes and that was included upstream in version 2.98 so sid and bookworm are OK.

> Is it possible to backport this fix?

I will look at backporting it to bullseye.

Mark