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On 06/07/14 17:51, "Tóth Attila" wrote: |
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> 2014.Június 7.(Szo) 15:07 időpontban Anthony G. Basile ezt írta: |
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>> This is one of those rare situations where there are enough serious bugs |
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>> against the kernel that we may have to rapid stabilize |
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>> hardened-sources-3.2.59-r5 and 3.14.5-r2. These are currently marked ~ |
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>> because I need feedback from users. So please try to upgrade to either |
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>> one (3.2 is preferred for mission critical) and give me feedback. The |
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>> only caution is do not enable KSTACKOVERFLOW, a new option which is know |
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>> to cause panics, eg virtio iface. |
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> I'm running hardened-sources-3.14.5 since Tuesday, and rebooted into |
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> hardened-sources-3.14.5-r2 on Saturday. I kept KSTACKOVERFLOW enabled for |
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> both kernels and experienced no crashes so far on two systems. |
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> Dw. |
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You can try KSTACKOVERFLOW. When I hit the issue with virtio iface, it |
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panicked as soon as the init scripts brought it up. When I switched to |
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e1000 it worked fine. |
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So if it works with your devices you're probably safe. Still, if you're |
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running some mission critical stuff, don't use it just in case. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |
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