Hello,

> > I've been experiencing really strange behaviours with the 2 latest
> > hardened kernels (2.6.14-r6 and r7) on 2 different machines that are
> > both used as OpenVPN concentrators. 
> > 2.6.14-r5 is working fine on these machines. 
> 
> looking at the diff between r5 and r6 i only see grsec related
> changes, so that could be the culprit. would it be possible to
> try the latest grsec patch alone (it's in grsecurity.net/~spender )?

I compile gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 and added
grsecurity-2.1.9-2.6.14.7-200602141849.patch
I couldn't make that kernel crash... 
I'll try this afternoon to add various other patches from the
hardened-patches-2.6.14-7.extras.tar.bz2 series to see which one is
responsible. 
I also tried to compile hardened-2.6.16-r4 but the make process failed with 

  LD      arch/i386/lib/built-in.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/bitops.o
  AS      arch/i386/lib/checksum.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/delay.o
  AS      arch/i386/lib/getuser.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/memcpy.o
  AS      arch/i386/lib/putuser.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/strstr.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/usercopy.o
  AR      arch/i386/lib/lib.a
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1681 cannot move location counter
backwards (from 0 00000000102e388 to 000000000102e387)
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1


> > The phenomenon is the following. When I connect to the openvpn
> > server from remote with openvpn, a connection is established (from
> > the view of the client) but in the same moment the server crashes. 
> > 
> > This is what I managed to capture with netconsole:
> 
> is this the full oops report? also posting your kernel .config
> and corresponding System.map would be useful (probably not to
> the list as they are quite big).

Yes, this is everything I get. 


You can find the .config file at
http://schwicky.net/linux/download/config
and the system.map at
http://schwicky.net/linux/download/System.map-2.6.14-hardened-r7
 
Regards. 
Jean-Pierre

  
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