linux-kernel - Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:14:20 +0000
From:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
To:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@...puserve.com>
Subject: Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:02, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 28 December 2006 02:41, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > Here's a current decompilation of vmlinux/pipe_poll() from the running
> > > kernel, the addresses have changed slightly. There's no xchg there
> > > either:
> >
> > Could you reproduce the bug by the new kernel, so we could get the exact
> > address and instruction of the bug?
>
> It crashed again, but this time with no output (machine locked solid). To
> be honest, the disassembly looks right (it's like Chuck said, it's jumping
> back half way through an instruction):
>
> c0156f5f:       3b 87 68 01 00 00       cmp    0x168(%edi),%eax
>
> So c0156f60 is 87 68 01 00 00..
>
> This is with the GCC recompile, so it's not a distro problem. It could
> still either be GCC 4.x, or a 2.6.19.1 specific bug, but it's serious.
> 2.6.19 with GCC 3.4.3 is 100% stable.

Looks like a similar crash here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1803389

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/