linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

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Message-ID: <877aabc40802112316t21d03114mc5b1f0411c019955@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:46:03 +0530
From:	"Amit Shah" <amitshah@....net>
To:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "Sergey Vlasov" <vsu@...linux.ru>
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

On Feb 10, 2008 6:00 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Amit Shah wrote:
>
> > cc503c1b "x86: PIE executable randomization" doesn't boot on my Ubuntu
> > Feisty Fawn Intel Core2 system.
> > I get numerous segfaults before getting a (initramfs) busybox shell. A
> > similar bug was reported much earlier:
>
> [ please, when you experience a problem and are able to identify the
> commit that triggers it, don't forget to CC the author of the commit in
> question -- me, in this case ]
>
> As far as I remembers, Ubuntu uses klibc in initramfs, right?
>
> What version of klibc do you have? There was a bug in klibc that causes
> such behavior on PIE-randomization-enabled kernels, and has been fixed in
> klibc-1.45 by commit [1]. Please make sure you have updated klibc version
> that doesn't contain this bug.

Thanks Jiri.

>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git;a=commit;h=10df6dfb13ffefe716f12136bbc667f18ff64744
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina


-- 
Amit Shah
http://www.amitshah.net/
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