Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 18/04/2008 11:51 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:45 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > * Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > is enough to prevent my system booting, viz:
> > hm, does it boot up fine with the attached patch and stackprotector 
> > enabled? It appears that your system got to the self-test so 
> > stackprotector is working mostly - it's just that the self-test went 
> > wrong.
>
> yes it'll be interesting to see if this is due to the test triggering or due to
> something else.
>
> Reuben:
> I assume your gcc is pretty vanilla and doesn't have weird patches in this area?

I think so.  Well, put it this way... I haven't made any changes to it, this is 
the standard/current gcc that has been in Gentoo Portage for the last while.

> Can you do a (with the test enabled in the config/code) do a
> make kernel/panic.s
> and send me that file? (this allows me to see what code your gcc generated 
for the test)

Done - posted up in the web directory along with the other files (saves the 
possible grief of MUA mangling).

I'm about to reboot to try Ingo's test also.

Reuben

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