Re: runit running under linux 2.4 with openwall patches

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:14:38PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> One of the features of openwall is stack protection.  I'm getting this 
> when I try to boot into a 2.4.29 kernel with openwall hardening 
> enabled:
> 
> Security: return onto stack from 0x0804812c to 0xbffffea0 running as 
> UID 0, EUID 0, process runit:1
> Security more returns onto stack, logging disabled for a minute
> 
> I can manage to make the kernel boot, but runit isn't running and it's 
> consuming 100% cpu in my vmware test machine.

Hm, I don't know the openwall patch and what in runit.c could cause
this.

> I'd like to be able to have both runit and this feature together; I 
> think it should be possible because the traditional init works with it. 
>  Any ideas on how to go about this?

Did you link the runit program statically with the dietlibc?  If so, you
could try to compile it the same way as the working /sbin/init, to be
sure it's not the compiler or libc causing the problem.

Regards, Gerrit.