Re: [vma list corruption] Re: proc_pid_readlink oopses again on 2.6.14.5

From: Joshua Kwan
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 01:23:05 EST


Gentlemen,

On 12/28/2005 12:33 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>So you've got 0xb7c1fc20 as vma. Which is not good, since that's a userland
>>address.
>
>
> sounds like it may also be a good idea to check for rootkits; some of
> those try to muck with the vma chains and stuff.... and break if the
> kernel changes a bit.

I rebuilt the SAME kernel source (2.6.14.5) with gcc-3.3, and everything
works fine.

Still rootkit, GCC's problem, or what?

Thanks.

--
Joshua Kwan
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