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From: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [vma list corruption] Re: proc_pid_readlink oopses again on  2.6.14.5
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:53:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B4CB42.7050603@triplehelix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135758794.2935.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Gentlemen,

On 12/28/2005 12:33 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>So you've got 0xb7c1fc20 as vma.  Which is not good, since that's a userland
>>address.
> 
> 
> sounds like it may also be a good idea to check for rootkits; some of
> those try to muck with the vma chains and stuff.... and break if the
> kernel changes a bit.

I rebuilt the SAME kernel source (2.6.14.5) with gcc-3.3, and everything
works fine.

Still rootkit, GCC's problem, or what?

Thanks.

-- 
Joshua Kwan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-28  5:52 proc_pid_readlink oopses again on 2.6.14.5 Joshua Kwan
2005-12-28  6:53 ` [vma list corruption] " Al Viro
2005-12-28  7:24   ` Joshua Kwan
2005-12-28  8:33   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-30  5:53     ` Joshua Kwan [this message]
2005-12-28  8:52 ` Arjan van de Ven

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