Re: [x86] a75a3f6fc9 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

[Fengguang Wu]

Hi Andy,

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:12:36PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > FYI here is an old bug, however is still active in mainline kernel.
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>
> > [    3.185986] init[1] vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none ip:ffffffffff600400 cs:33 sp:7ffe878ff8b8 ax:ffffffffff600400 si:7f2c3de62a4c di:7ffe878ff978
>
> I don't know what's up with the bisection, but I think this is a
> configuration problem in your test setup.  You've configured with:
>
> CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE=y
>
> which is not valid when you're running binaries that are compiled with
> as old a glibc as you're using.  *Dynamic* glibc binaries have been
> fine for a long time, but static glibc binaried (e.g. your init, I
> presume) need a glibc that's only a couple years old.
>
> You could fix it by either disallowing that particular configuration
> or by updating your distro.

OK, I'll disable that configuration since I'm running various
tiny/large modern/legacy OS images (yocto, openwrt, ubuntu, debian,
RHEL) for doing kernel tests.

Regards,
Fengguang