linux-kernel - Re: StackProtector Oopses

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Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:45 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@...b.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1


* Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@...b.net> wrote:

> is enough to prevent my system booting, viz:

hm, does it boot up fine with the attached patch and stackprotector 
enabled? It appears that your system got to the self-test so 
stackprotector is working mostly - it's just that the self-test went 
wrong.

	Ingo

----------------->
Subject: x86: disable stackprotector selftest
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Date: Fri Apr 18 15:21:49 CEST 2008

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/panic.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/kernel/panic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/kernel/panic.c
+++ linux-x86.q/kernel/panic.c
@@ -394,5 +394,5 @@ void __stack_chk_fail(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
 
-late_initcall(__stack_chk_test);
+/* late_initcall(__stack_chk_test); */
 #endif
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