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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 00:13:24 +0200
From: Adam Zabrocki <pi3@....com.pl>
To: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

Dnia 2012-05-16, śro o godzinie 23:09 +0200, Tavis Ormandy pisze:
> 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

Again I wasn't clear (mail sent from mobile phone so I was lazy to type
on this small keyboard), I was refering to VSYSCALL not VDSO. My
mistake ;p

Best regards,
Adam

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