Bug#401482: vdso patch doesn't work against 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1

2007-09-12 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Sam, I found this problem in the stock upstream 2.6.18.8 kernel, and for me the fix involved the following: 1. apply the attached patch (taken from the RHEL 5 kernel source package) 2. build the kernel with CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO disabled 3. use an older version of gcc (I had been testing with 6.6

Bug#401482: vdso patch doesn't work against 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1

2007-09-12 Thread Sam Morris
I built a kernel from linux-source-2.6.22 version 2.6.22-4 with the .config taken from linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 version 2.6.22-4. $ uname -r 2.6.22-fixdso $ gdb sleep (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthr

Bug#401482: vdso patch doesn't work against 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1

2007-08-30 Thread Mark Dieterich
We tried applying the suggested patch from novell against the 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1 kernel source and continue to see the problem. Turning off vdso at boot or dynamically does work for us. The problem didn't appear when running the linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7 (2.6.21-6) kernel. Sam, what kernel did y