On Friday 11 April 2008, Vaeth wrote: > > So the point is, our current 2.6.24 kernel is safe. > > I can *not* confirm this. Just some days ago, I compiled > hardened-sources-2.6.24 (which uses genpatches-2.6.24-5; > current gentoo-sources uses genpatches-2.6.24-6, but the > difference is obviously not important here [it involves > just an #include for some exotic hardwar]). > > Result: Compiles fine with gcc-4.3 on x86 but dies immediately > at boot (before printing anything) unless acpi=off is used. > (And just to be sure, I disabled every acpi feature except > "general" acpi support - same result). > > It is certainly a compiler problem, because with gcc-4.2 > exactly the same kernel configuration (and even on amd64 > with gcc-4.3 and analogous configuration) has no problem.
doesnt sound like a hardened specific problem, nor the string direction problem we've been talking about. the string problem we've been discussing affects userspace *only*. if it fails to reach userspace, your bug is clearly not this bug. -mike
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