Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

[pageexec@freemail.hu]

On 13 Feb 2008 at 17:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> hm, had to pull it again because it crashed in testing:

i've only tested .24, not .25 so maybe something changed. did you
make sure that

  write_pda(stack_canary, next_p->stack_canary);

was removed from arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:__switch_to? that's
the only reason i can think of that would trigger this trace.

> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> stack corrupted in: thread_return+0xd0/0xe2
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1 #3
> 
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff80242018>] __stack_chk_fail+0x2a/0x68
>  [<ffffffff807a0478>] thread_return+0xd0/0xe2
>  [<ffffffff8025f5c3>] getnstimeofday+0x3f/0xab
>  [<ffffffff8025cfc7>] ktime_get_ts+0x27/0x6f
>  [<ffffffff8025d02b>] ktime_get+0x1c/0x66
>  [<ffffffff802639af>] tick_nohz_stop_idle+0x39/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b204>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0xca
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
> 
> config attached.
> 
> 	Ingo
>