Bug#866122: kernel resolution

2019-09-12 Thread Barry Arndt
For reference: While debugging this very tricky problem, our kernel team found 2 separate but related bugs whose resolutions fix the problem outlined in this report. The bug fixes both resulted in CVEs and have already been added to Linus' tree. They are: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu

Bug#866122: slapd-mtread crash on ppc64{,el} in stretch/sid

2019-06-25 Thread Barry Arndt
A few things: I verified that this problem does not recreate on buster, as Ryan mentioned earlier, because of the disabling of lock elision in glibc. I verified that this problem still exists on a Debian 9.8 base with upstream kernel 5.1.0-x, which contains up-to-date TM fixes. Our kernel t

Bug#866122: slapd-mtread crash on ppc64{,el} in stretch/sid

2017-08-04 Thread Barry Arndt
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:20:12 -0300 Breno Leitao wrote: > Although lack of recent updates, we are still working on this problem. > > Barry (on CC) is allocated to work on this issue and should have updates soon. > > > The offending line of code that Breno mentioned earlier was part of a lar