Package: zram-tools
Version: 0.3.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

On some ARM boards, zramswap miscounts the processors due to not anchoring
the regex it uses to count processors.

For example /proc/cpuinfo on a Raspberry Pi looks like:

---

processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 897.37
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2835
Revision        : 0002
Serial          : 000000003ec63cb3

---

contains the word "processor" twice when there's only one processor.

To fix this, the regex used by grep on line 23 of zramswap needs to be
"^processor" instead of just "processor".

Alternatively replacing that line with some lscpu invocation punts the problem
of parsing /proc/cpuinfo to another package.

(Note that this was reported on my laptop as reportbug isn't available on the
affected board)

Thanks,

Julian Calaby


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages zram-tools depends on:
ii  bc  1.07.1-2+b1

zram-tools recommends no packages.

zram-tools suggests no packages.

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