Re: Fwd: brk randomization breaks columns

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 17:48:23 EST


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Abel Bernabeu wrote:

> > > I think I am getting the some problem with brand new binaries produced
> > > by myself :(
> > > Look at this report I posted days ago:
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120169141603789&w=2
> > Your crash is in kernel, no? Anyway, I can workaround mine by
> > disabling randomization...
> Yes, my crash happens at kernel space, but is due to the randomized
> params passed to set_brk (the same thing that makes your game crash
> later at runtime).

[ please don't drop me from CC, thanks ]

Abel, I actually don't think you have chance to have any issues with
randomization, as the mentioned post talks about 2.6.22.10, which doesn't
randomize the brk start at all.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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