Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 11:06:41 EST



* Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> It boots up fine with that patch below and:
>
> tornado boot # grep STACKPROTECT /boot/config-2.6.25-mm1-wip
> CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL=y
> CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
>
> In fact I'm running with it applied right now and it all seems good so
> far, so I guess that's confirmation that it is just the test itself
> which is problematic?

yeah. Arjan - any new patches to try that might fix the bootup test?

Ingo
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