Hi guys,

I'm encountering a reproduceable problem with hardened 2.6.26-r9 and
2.6.27-r8 that wasn't there with 2.6.25-r13 on i686, and isn't there
with amd64 using approximately the same kernel configuration in every
case.  I've been able to reproduce it in vmware, qemu and on physical
boxes, one with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700, the other AMD
Athlon(tm) 64 FX-62 Dual Core.  It a stack fault in kernel mode, but I
can't pin it down further.  It happens almost immediately after the
bootloader passes control to the kernel.  The best error message comes
from qemu which gives the states of the registers.  Here's the error
message from a bootable ISO I made suing 2.6.26-r9.  Any idea where I
can start tackling this one?

# qemu -cdrom th-i686-20090307-RC3.iso
qemu: fatal: triple fault
EAX=000000ff EBX=0153cac0 ECX=0013a2d1 EDX=0013a2d1
ESI=0024c000 EDI=01400000 EBP=01541a20 ESP=01541a10
EIP=0153a2d0 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300
CS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9b00
SS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300
DS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300
FS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300
GS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300
LDT=0000 00000000 00000000 00008000
TR =0020 00001000 00000067 00008900
GDT=     000928f0 00000027
IDT=     00000000 00000000
CR0=60000011 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
CCS=0024c000 CCD=ffeee2d1 CCO=SUBL   
FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80
FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000
FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000
FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000
FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000
XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000
Aborted

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
USA

(716) 829-8197



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