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

Amit Shah
2008-02-12T07:16:17Z

On Feb 10, 2008 6:00 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.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