From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756008AbYDROl1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:41:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752402AbYDROlU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:41:20 -0400 Received: from tornado.reub.net ([59.167.255.179]:37954 "EHLO tornado.reub.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752177AbYDROlT (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:41:19 -0400 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.5.2 tornado.reub.net 5B9BA129ACB Message-ID: <4808B303.1050402@reub.net> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:41:07 +1000 From: Reuben Farrelly User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.15pre (Windows/20080417) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1 References: <20080418014757.52fb4a4f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <48089BDE.6040100@reub.net> <20080418133645.GF31797@elte.hu> <20080418065127.3005c671@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080418065127.3005c671@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18/04/2008 11:51 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:45 +0200 > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> * Reuben Farrelly 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. >> > > yes it'll be interesting to see if this is due to the test triggering or due to > something else. > > Reuben: > I assume your gcc is pretty vanilla and doesn't have weird patches in this area? I think so. Well, put it this way... I haven't made any changes to it, this is the standard/current gcc that has been in Gentoo Portage for the last while. > Can you do a (with the test enabled in the config/code) do a > make kernel/panic.s > and send me that file? (this allows me to see what code your gcc generated for the test) Done - posted up in the web directory along with the other files (saves the possible grief of MUA mangling). I'm about to reboot to try Ingo's test also. Reuben