Comment 5 for bug 304117

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote : Re: [Bug 304117] Re: kernel.maps_protect removed from 2.6.28 kernels

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:21:20PM -0000, Detlef Lechner wrote:
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 I obtain an error message: "Setting kernel variables... Kernel map detect is an unknown key kernel.maps_protect. [fail]"
> I do not understand how a "fix has been released" and I still receive this error message. Can you explain?
> uname -a; Linux MD97600 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:57:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Your /etc/sysctl.conf file probably did not get merged correctly. If you
remove the maps_protect line, the warning should go away.