linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: brk randomization breaks columns

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802042346020.30873@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:48:01 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Abel Bernabeu <abel.bernabeu@...il.com>
cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: brk randomization breaks columns

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Abel Bernabeu wrote:

> > > I think I am getting the some problem with brand new binaries produced
> > > by myself :(
> > > Look at this report I posted days ago:
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120169141603789&w=2
> > Your crash is in kernel, no? Anyway, I can workaround mine by 
> > disabling randomization...
> Yes, my crash happens at kernel space, but is due to the randomized 
> params passed to set_brk (the same thing that makes your game crash 
> later at runtime).

[ please don't drop me from CC, thanks ]

Abel, I actually don't think you have chance to have any issues with 
randomization, as the mentioned post talks about 2.6.22.10, which doesn't 
randomize the brk start at all.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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