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From: Brian Kroth <bpkroth@××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] kernel upgrade problems: bad page state
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:36:05
Message-Id: 472DCA4E.7040201@wisc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] kernel upgrade problems: bad page state by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
2 > On 4 Nov 2007 at 1:30, Brian Kroth wrote:
3 >
4 >> No problems after 20+ minutes of looping the command. So SEGMEXEC seems
5 >> to be the culprit, correct?
6 >
7 > yes, and i as wrote earlier, most likely the vma mirroring part.
8 >
9 >> Did something change in the way that was handled from 2.6.20 to 2.6.22?
10 >
11 > yes, i rewrote vma mirroring (the core concept behind the implementation
12 > of SEGMEXEC) in july.
13 >
14
15 More problems found when I left cactid and nagios with paxctl -s. That
16 didn't seem to solve everything for nagios, and cacti is no getting
17 killed by grsec for some reason. Where can I increase the logging level
18 like you mentioned?
19
20 Thanks,
21 Brian
22
23
24 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc Bad page state in process 'nagios'
25 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc page:c178b0c0 flags:0x80000001 mapping:00000000
26 mapcount:0 count:0
27 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
28 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc Backtrace:
29 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c0403da8>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
30 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c0403dd0>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
31 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c0403eca>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
32 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c044ba59>] bad_page+0x66/0x97
33 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c044c52e>] free_hot_cold_page+0x71/0x180
34 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c044c647>] free_hot_page+0xa/0xc
35 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c044ef70>] __page_cache_release+0x84/0x90
36 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c044efdc>] put_page+0x27/0x36
37 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c04558aa>] do_wp_page+0x219/0x3fc
38 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c0456b37>] __handle_mm_fault+0x277/0x2cd
39 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c0414406>] do_page_fault+0x1cd/0x7bf
40 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc [<c06e6d55>] error_code+0x75/0x80
41 Nov 4 02:00:46 tux-mc =======================
42
43 Nov 4 05:30:02 tux-mc grsec: signal 11 sent to
44 /usr/sbin/cactid[cactid:12039] uid/euid:81/81 gid/egid:81/81, parent
45 /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
46 Nov 4 05:45:06 tux-mc grsec: signal 11 sent to
47 /usr/sbin/cactid[cactid:13347] uid/euid:81/81 gid/egid:81/81, parent
48 /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
49 Nov 4 06:35:03 tux-mc grsec: signal 11 sent to
50 /usr/sbin/cactid[cactid:17502] uid/euid:81/81 gid/egid:81/81, parent
51 /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0

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