linux-kernel - Re: StackProtector Oopses

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:04 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@...b.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1


* Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@...b.net> 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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