Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m&a

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51346; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m&a
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:19:17 +0800 (PHT)

 On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, David Holland wrote:
 
 >  > Forward to audit trail:
 >  >
 >  > : needs mprotect disable since it loads kernel code and relocates it.
 >  >
 >  > : don't disable PIE
 >
 > so it still needs +a in PAXCTL_FLAGS?
 
 As of right now, yes it still needs +a
 
 Without +a, it fails for me on 12 out of 20 test runs (60% fail rate).
 
 With +a, it succeeds 20 out of 20 (100% success rate).
 
 
 
 
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