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On 8 Jul 2010 at 21:36, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> While discussing inability to run 64-bit VMware guests on 32-bit Gentoo |
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> Hardened host I got reply: it's because of GrSec/Pax bug related to |
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> "way that vmap(..., VM_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) may map a page as |
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> non-executable, despite the flag requesting an executable mapping": |
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> http://communities.vmware.com/message/1567187#1567187 |
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> I wonder which hardened-source will include fix for this issue? |
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> Is candidate for next stable (2.6.32-r?) have it? |
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the problem with vmap handling was fixed on i386 last year iirc (but definitely |
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later than your .28, that's very old ;), on amd64 only recently after we'd talked |
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to a vmware engineer. |
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so in general .32+ should work, as far as this problem is concerned. unfortunately |
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i couldn't find a working ebuild for vmware 7 yet, so i can't tell if there're more |
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problems or not. |
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