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Hello. I am having random hard reboots on a remote server. I've noticed that this problem only occurs with grsec kernels, not the stock Debian ones. This has been happening with 2.6.19.2 and 2.6.22.6. There is no helpful information in syslog or dmesg. I do not know what causes this so I am unable to reproduce it. Below is my kernel configuration file:

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#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.22.6
# Thu Sep 27 17:21:05 2007
#
[...]
#
# Security options
#

#
# Grsecurity
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_LOW is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_MEDIUM is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_HIGH is not set
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CUSTOM=y

#
# Address Space Protection
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_KMEM=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_IO=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_MEMMAP=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_BRUTE=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_HIDESYM=y

#
# Role Based Access Control Options
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_HIDEKERN=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_MAXTRIES=3
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_TIMEOUT=60

#
# Filesystem Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_USER=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_ADD=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_LINK=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FIFO=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MOUNT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_DOUBLE=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_PIVOT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CHDIR=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CHMOD=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_FCHDIR=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MKNOD=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_SHMAT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_UNIX=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_FINDTASK=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_NICE=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CAPS=y

#
# Kernel Auditing
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_GROUP=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_GID=2000
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECLOG=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RESLOG=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_EXECLOG=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_CHDIR=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_MOUNT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_IPC=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SIGNAL=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FORKFAIL=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TIME=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_IPADDR=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_TEXTREL is not set

#
# Executable Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECVE=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SHM=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_DMESG=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE_ALL is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE_INVERT is not set
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE_GID=2001

#
# Network Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDNET=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_ALL=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_ALL_GID=2002
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_CLIENT=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_CLIENT_GID=2003
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_SERVER=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET_SERVER_GID=2004

#
# Sysctl support
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SYSCTL_ON=y

#
# Logging Options
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FLOODTIME=10
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FLOODBURST=4

#
# PaX
#
CONFIG_PAX=y

#
# PaX Control
#
# CONFIG_PAX_SOFTMODE is not set
# CONFIG_PAX_EI_PAX is not set
CONFIG_PAX_PT_PAX_FLAGS=y
# CONFIG_PAX_NO_ACL_FLAGS is not set
CONFIG_PAX_HAVE_ACL_FLAGS=y
# CONFIG_PAX_HOOK_ACL_FLAGS is not set

#
# Non-executable pages
#
CONFIG_PAX_NOEXEC=y
CONFIG_PAX_PAGEEXEC=y
CONFIG_PAX_SEGMEXEC=y
CONFIG_PAX_EMUTRAMP=y
CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT=y
# CONFIG_PAX_NOELFRELOCS is not set
CONFIG_PAX_KERNEXEC=y

#
# Address Space Layout Randomization
#
CONFIG_PAX_ASLR=y
CONFIG_PAX_RANDKSTACK=y
CONFIG_PAX_RANDUSTACK=y
CONFIG_PAX_RANDMMAP=y

#
# Miscellaneous hardening features
#
CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE=y
CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y
# CONFIG_KEYS is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?

lasko wrote:

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CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE=y

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?

assuming it reproduces reliably, try to disable that option first and see if it helps. also, if you can grab console logs somehow (e.g., serial port) it might catch something useful.

I will disable it. If there are any more problems I will report back. Thank you.