* Klaus Kusche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I analyzed Xfree's behaviour with strace. In addition to the two kinds
of mmap listed above (which are allowed), Xfree makes many r/w mmap
calls to the following two areas of memory (which are blocked by grsec
and make Xfree fail):
* r/w mmaps of
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Klaus Kusche wrote:
I use a Sony notebook with an ATI M7 chip, Xfree 4.2.x with the radeon
driver, and a linux kernel 2.4.20 with the gr security patches 1.9.8.
When the /dev/kmem protection in grsec is enabled, Xfree fails to start.
This protection disables all writes
My guess is that xkbcomp is failing in one case and not the other.
How can I tell? There's nothing in the log file, and I replaced
xkbcomp with a shell script that invoked the real binary and it
seems to be getting the right arguments. But no matter what, the
X server that xdm is invoking is
