2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

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2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

Postby sfaerber » Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:58 am

Hello,

i just tried 2.6.30.5 and the latest grsecurity patch (grsecurity-2.1.14-2.6.30.5-200909021910.patch) and got the following error/ kernel oops
after boot:
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PAX: iptables:7709, uid/euid: 0/0, attempted to modify kernel code
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c1696000
IP: [<000a1444>] 0x0a1444
*pdpt = 0000000001692001 *pde = 00000000016001e1
Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/name
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full oops from dmesg: http://pastebin.com/m4574130b
.config: http://pastebin.com/m1efb23ca
readelf -ed vmlinux: http://pastebin.com/m79fe906e

Let me know if you need anything else /how i can assist you with debugging this.

Thanks,

Sebastian
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Re: 2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

Postby spender » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:32 am

Can you make your System.map and vmlinux (the file in your kernel source tree) file available somewhere?

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Re: 2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

Postby sfaerber » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:43 am

Sure, no problem:

http://v6-net.de/grsec/vmlinux
http://v6-net.de/grsec/System.map

Thanks for your help,

Sebastian
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Re: 2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

Postby spender » Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:44 am

The PaX team has determined the problem and is working on a fix.

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Re: 2.6.30.5 / PAX: iptables attempted to modify kernel code

Postby PaX Team » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:43 pm

spender wrote:The PaX team has determined the problem and is working on a fix.
should be fixed in the latest test patches.
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