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DateFri, 18 Apr 2008 06:51:27 -0700
FromArjan van de Ven <>
SubjectRe: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:45 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@reub.net> wrote:
> 
> > is enough to prevent my system booting, viz:
> 
> hm, does it boot up fine with the attached patch and stackprotector 
> enabled? It appears that your system got to the self-test so 
> stackprotector is working mostly - it's just that the self-test went 
> wrong.
> 

yes it'll be interesting to see if this is due to the test triggering or due to
something else.

Reuben:
I assume your gcc is pretty vanilla and doesn't have weird patches in this area?

Can you do a (with the test enabled in the config/code) do a
make kernel/panic.s
and send me that file? (this allows me to see what code your gcc generated for the test)

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