enh: speedup by not decompressing kernel on --sysfs-only

grantdlr · Feb 2, 2018 · 36bd80d · 36bd80d
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diff --git a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
@@ -982,6 +982,8 @@ if [ -e "$opt_kernel" ]; then
 	if ! which readelf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 		_debug "readelf not found"
 		vmlinux_err="missing 'readelf' tool, please install it, usually it's in the 'binutils' package"
+	elif [ "$opt_sysfs_only" = 1 ]; then
+		vmlinux_err='kernel image decompression skipped'
 	else
 		extract_vmlinux "$opt_kernel"
 	fi