Hello Bart, On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 07:16:19PM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 07:47:45PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Hello Bart, > > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 08:00:45AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > > retitle 665868 grsecurity kills tvtime > > > severity 665868 wishlist > > > > Why? > > Because this title and severity currently fit best, in my opinion.
Ok, your call. I choose important because this looks very much like a
security issue. (As we say here: better be safe than sorry).
> > > Can you find out why grsecurity kills tvtime ?
> >
> > Sure, what information do you need?
>
> Anything that explains why grsecurity kills tvtime.
Ok, I was imprecise:
Which commands do you want me to run? A certain (debug) build? Using
gdb, strace?
I think the explanation of the problem itself is under the given
link. (To be honest, I do not understand it 100% myself atm, probably
because I'm only a casual programmer). The kernel help text says:
By saying Y here the kernel recomputes expressions of function arguments marked
by
a size_overflow attribute with double integer precision
(DImode/TImode for 32/64 bit integer types). The recomputed argument
is checked against INT_MAX and an event is logged on overflow
and the triggering process is killed.
If you want, I could forward this bug to the grsecurity list, maybe
they could provide more information (probably in better terms than I
ever could)?
> > (I disabled this option again as I have no other TV atm., but for
> > Testing I can boot into the old one or build a current 3.2 with the
> > option reanabled).
>
> I read that as you can still reproduce the problem.
If you want, I can try with the "latest" kernel (3.2, a few minor
revisions newer). I'll do that on Sunday or late next week (sorry,
lots of travelling atm) at the latest.
> > P.S. I'm currently not at the system in question, but I can try to
> > check on Sunday, if I got your debug info by then.
>
> My debug info ?
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker. I meant (as stated above) the list of
information you need to understand the problem, i.e. gdb output,
strace output, ...
Greetings
Helge
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