Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón" <tazok.id0@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] google-chrome crashes unless softmode
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:03:12
Message-Id: 51002604.1010105@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] google-chrome crashes unless softmode by PaX Team
1 On 23/01/13 08:17, PaX Team wrote:
2 > On 22 Jan 2013 at 19:44, Grant wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> google-chrome suffers intermittent crashes on x86 unless I enable
5 >>>> softmode. Is there any other option to keep it running?
6 >>>
7 >>> can you get some details on the nature of crashes? any logs perhaps?
8 >>> if softmode fixes it then it's probably MPROTECT related, did you
9 >>> already disable it on the binary?
10 >>
11 >> MPROTECT is actually already disabled:
12 >
13 > ok, in that case can you report this
14 >
15 >> chrome[13338]: segfault at bbadbeef ip 14d81f2b sp 5ec2e1b0 error 6 in chrome[136f4000+4203000]
16 >
17 > to the chrome folks? i'm pretty sure that 'bbadbeef' is a magic constant
18 > somewhere in their userland memory management code and signifies some
19 > corruption (use-after-free perhaps?) and they'd probably like to know
20 > how to reproduce this.
21 >
22 >
23 webkit¿?