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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:07:47
Message-Id: 4D1782DD.3000102@gentoo.org
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
16 Within 24 hours I'll have the following ebuilds on the tree marked ~arch:
17
18 hardened-sources-2.6.32-r32
19 hardened-sources-2.6.36-r7
20
21 They are based on the very latest grsec patches. Can users who hit the
22 panic test them?
23
24 --
25 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
26 Gentoo Developer