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[GIT PATCH] actually check va randomization [message #30936] Tue, 10 June 2008 23:51 Go to next message
Dave Hansen is currently offline  Dave Hansen
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Rather than just documenting this in the readme, actually spit
out a warning on it.

You can pull from: git://git.sr71.net/~dave/cryo-forhallyn.git/

-- Dave

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Re: [GIT PATCH] actually check va randomization [message #30940 is a reply to message #30936] Wed, 11 June 2008 03:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
serue is currently offline  serue
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Quoting Dave Hansen (dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> Rather than just documenting this in the readme, actually spit
> out a warning on it.
> 
> You can pull from: git://git.sr71.net/~dave/cryo-forhallyn.git/
> 
> -- Dave

Thanks, merged.

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Re: [GIT PATCH] actually check va randomization [message #30986 is a reply to message #30936] Wed, 11 June 2008 18:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sukadev Bhattiprolu is currently offline  Sukadev Bhattiprolu
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Dave Hansen [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
| Rather than just documenting this in the readme, actually spit
| out a warning on it.

Why not just bail out ?  Its mostly unreliable at that point anyway.
Besides, the warning can get buried in lot of other output.
---
>From 84d005031a8a17bdca62dc541c296a3bea74658c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:22:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] cryo currently requires randomize_va_space to be 0. Fail if it is not.

---
 cr.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cr.c b/cr.c
index db3ada0..217c5e7 100644
--- a/cr.c
+++ b/cr.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,7 @@ void check_for_va_randomize(void)
 		return;
 	fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: %s is set to: %d\n", VA_RANDOM_FILE, enabled);
 	fprintf(stderr, "         Please set to 0 to make cryo more reliable\n");
+	exit(1);
 }
 
 void usage(void)
-- 
1.5.2.5

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Re: [GIT PATCH] actually check va randomization [message #30988 is a reply to message #30986] Wed, 11 June 2008 19:52 Go to previous message
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Quoting sukadev@us.ibm.com (sukadev@us.ibm.com):
> Dave Hansen [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
> | Rather than just documenting this in the readme, actually spit
> | out a warning on it.
> 
> Why not just bail out ?  Its mostly unreliable at that point anyway.
> Besides, the warning can get buried in lot of other output.
> ---
> >From 84d005031a8a17bdca62dc541c296a3bea74658c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:22:17 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] cryo currently requires randomize_va_space to be 0. Fail if it is not.
> 
> ---
>  cr.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cr.c b/cr.c
> index db3ada0..217c5e7 100644
> --- a/cr.c
> +++ b/cr.c
> @@ -1464,6 +1464,7 @@ void check_for_va_randomize(void)
>  		return;
>  	fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: %s is set to: %d\n", VA_RANDOM_FILE, enabled);
>  	fprintf(stderr, "         Please set to 0 to make cryo more reliable\n");
> +	exit(1);
>  }
> 
>  void usage(void)

Oh...  Thanks, Suka, I'd just done the same thing using an ERROR().

thanks,
-serge
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