From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261631AbVGETvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261500AbVGETvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:51:37 -0400 Received: from urchin.mweb.co.za ([196.2.24.26]:39549 "EHLO urchin.mweb.co.za") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261658AbVGETve (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:51:34 -0400 From: Bongani Hlope To: Sven Rudolph Subject: Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:52:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.50 Cc: Andrew Morton , Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Juan Gallego References: <200506132259.22151.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> <200506160139.04389.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507052152.24022.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 05 July 2005 10:36 am, Sven Rudolph wrote: > Bongani Hlope writes: > 8< > > Hi Linus > > > > I just tested, 2.6.12-rc6 minus randomisation-top-of-stack-randomization.patch Works For Me (tm) > > Sorry, I didn't follow the original discussion: Is this problem > expected to be solved in 2.6.12.2? Is it solved for you? > > (I get similiar problems in 2.6.12.2, and I am uns ure know how to > proceed.) > > Sven Hi Sven I haven't tested 2.6.12.2 but the problem was introduced around 2.6.11-mm1 and found its way to 2.6.12-rcX. First try to run the following command (this works for me) echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space I got an email from Juan Gallego (cc'd), he says that command does not work for him though. Andrew, Should I log this on the kernel's bugzilla? Regards /etc/sysctl.conf