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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:02:43
Message-Id: 4D1775F8.5010704@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 On 12/26/2010 03:46 AM, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
2 > On 26 Dec 2010 at 1:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >
4 >> I've got (at least) two servers that lose their root partition after
5 >> this upgrade. One of them has an HP cciss SCSI RAID controller; the
6 >> other has a single IDE hard drive. Assuming the problem is something
7 >> common, I'll stick to describing the one with the array for now.
8 >
9 > which grsec is this ebuild based on? my guess is that it's a recent PaX/UDEREF
10 > hardening that's causing this and should be mostly fixed now except for the
11 > IP checksum code fix which i'll release soon. in the meantime you can disable
12 > UDEREF. if you don't have it enabled then i don't know what it is, we'll need
13 > more debugging, let me know.
14
15 The hardened-patches contains the following:
16
17 4423_grsec-remove-protected-paths.patch
18 4420_grsecurity-2.2.1-2.6.36.2-201012121726.patch
19 4435_grsec-kconfig-gentoo.patch
20 4421_grsec-remove-localversion-grsec.patch
21 4425_grsec-pax-without-grsec.patch
22 4430_grsec-kconfig-default-gids.patch
23 4422_grsec-mute-warnings.patch
24
25 I do have UDEREF enabled:
26
27 # grep UDEREF .config
28 CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y
29
30 I can try disabling it when I'd be willing to drive to work and reboot
31 the thing.

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