linux-kernel - Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

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Message-ID: <20080213164853.GA25476@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:48:53 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	pageexec@...email.hu
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> thanks, i've picked up your patch into x86.git#mm and also made 
> stackprotector-all default-enabled so that we get more test coverage 
> of this critical security feature. x86.git#mm can be picked up via:

hm, had to pull it again because it crashed in testing:

CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02
Brought up 2 CPUs
stack corrupted in: thread_return+0xd0/0xe2
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1 #3

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80242018>] __stack_chk_fail+0x2a/0x68
 [<ffffffff807a0478>] thread_return+0xd0/0xe2
 [<ffffffff8025f5c3>] getnstimeofday+0x3f/0xab
 [<ffffffff8025cfc7>] ktime_get_ts+0x27/0x6f
 [<ffffffff8025d02b>] ktime_get+0x1c/0x66
 [<ffffffff802639af>] tick_nohz_stop_idle+0x39/0x76
 [<ffffffff8020b204>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0xca

Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted

config attached.

	Ingo

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