Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:08 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: StackProtector Oopses - Re: 2.6.25-mm1 |
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > yeah. Arjan - any new patches to try that might fix the bootup test? > > I've looked at the disassembly and compared it to mine, and the gcc is > doing something... rather unexpected. The only thing I can think of is > the patch below, it should make it a ton more robust...
> - memset(&foo, 0, 2*sizeof(foo)); /* deliberate buffer overflow */ > + if (current->stack_canary == *(((unsigned long *)&foo)+1)) > + *(((unsigned long *)&foo)+1) = 0; > + else > + printk(KERN_ERR "No -ftack-protector canary found\n");
ok, i queued this up. (with the typo that Valdis noticed fixed)
but ... this bug needs to be figured out, not worked around.
Ingo
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