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On Friday 11 April 2008, Vaeth wrote: |
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> > So the point is, our current 2.6.24 kernel is safe. |
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> I can *not* confirm this. Just some days ago, I compiled |
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> hardened-sources-2.6.24 (which uses genpatches-2.6.24-5; |
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> current gentoo-sources uses genpatches-2.6.24-6, but the |
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> difference is obviously not important here [it involves |
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> just an #include for some exotic hardwar]). |
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> Result: Compiles fine with gcc-4.3 on x86 but dies immediately |
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> at boot (before printing anything) unless acpi=off is used. |
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> (And just to be sure, I disabled every acpi feature except |
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> "general" acpi support - same result). |
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> It is certainly a compiler problem, because with gcc-4.2 |
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> exactly the same kernel configuration (and even on amd64 |
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> with gcc-4.3 and analogous configuration) has no problem. |
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doesnt sound like a hardened specific problem, nor the string direction |
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problem we've been talking about. the string problem we've been discussing |
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affects userspace *only*. if it fails to reach userspace, your bug is |
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clearly not this bug. |
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-mike |
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