Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:41:07 +1000 | | From | Reuben Farrelly <> | | Subject | Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1 | |
On 18/04/2008 11:51 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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?
I think so. Well, put it this way... I haven't made any changes to it, this is
the standard/current gcc that has been in Gentoo Portage for the last while.
> 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)
Done - posted up in the web directory along with the other files (saves the
possible grief of MUA mangling).
I'm about to reboot to try Ingo's test also.
Reuben
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