full-disclosure - Re: The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 09:12:48 +0100
From: charlie@...kymunkey.com
To: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Adam Zabrocki <pi3@....com.pl>
Subject: Re: The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

You use a custom kernel with Gentoo so this would be a user error...

Charlie

Quoting Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49:40PM +0200, Adam Zabrocki wrote:
>> Hi Tavis,
>>
>> Yes this is stock kernels and yes you must believe it is so simple  
>> mistake ;)
>> All systems was installed as VM in default installation using official ISOs.
>>
>> And of course this is configuration mistake not kernel problem(!) -  
>> my mistake
>> if I wasn't clear in the write-up.
>
> Well, you weren't clear, you didn't mention distribution or
> CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO once, which were the only important pieces of
> information.
>
> But we're making progress, we now know that opensuse on x86 is broken.
>
>>
>> so the latest update has this fix but still official ISO has old  
>> kernel. Fix was applied
>> in March/April. So again _sock kernels_ have/had so simple mistake ;)
>>
>
> Apparently so. Originally you said Gentoo, Fedora 16 and Ubuntu. Can you
> confirm that you were wrong and it is just a SuSE ia32 problem?
>
> Tavis
>
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