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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:56:30 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/kaslr] x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
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* Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> >> > The failure I saw triggered with fairly modern userspace:
> >> >
> >> >  GNU ld version 2.23.52.0.1-9.fc19 20130226
> >> >
> >> >  gcc version 4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1) (GCC)
> >>
> >> Can you try with the gold linker?  When not using Gold, I can produce 
> >> a similar crash with GNU ld ver 2.23.2 but not 2.22.
> >
> > I'm not set up for Gold - but maybe others can try your experiment.
> >
> > If you can see/reproduce the 2.23 crash then maybe that fix will work 
> > for my testcase as well.
> 
> I haven't isolated the problem with 2.23 yet, but I'll start digging.

I've excluded tip:x86/kaslr from tip:master meanwhile.

Thanks,

	Ingo