Re: Weird coincidental PAX crashes

On 05/09/2014 13:46, "Tóth Attila" wrote:
> 2014.Május 9.(P) 17:39 időpontban Michael Orlitzky ezt írta:
>> On 05/09/2014 11:29 AM, Mark Gomersbach wrote:
>>> Maybe a bug somewhere else too, which combination kernel/grsec/pax was
>>> used?
>>>
>>
>> Whatever came with sys-kernel/hardened-sources-3.11.7-r1:
>>
>>   # uname -a
>>   Linux mmmc2 3.11.7-hardened-r1 #1 SMP Fri Jan 3 23:13:48 EST 2014
>>   x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>
>> Here's the hardened portion of the kernel .config for the web server
>> that blew up today. The config for the mail server should be almost
>> identical. I maintain the kernel configs for different hardware in
>> different repos, but unless I've made a mistake, the hardening options
>> should be the same.
>>
> 
> I encourage you to upgrade your kernel to the latest available in the
> tree. Even if its keyworded currently. Such things pop up sometimes, come
> and go. Grsec/PaX developers (spender/pipacs/ephox) fixes most of these
> pretty quickly. I would also check out grsecurity support forums.

I think I ran into this, too, in 3.11. It takes a few days of uptime before
it happens.  Running 3.13.x now on my x64 machine and haven't ran into it
again.  So I second the suggestion to upgrade your kernel.

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Joshua Kinard
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