Re: hardened kernel and loop-aes

[Boyd Waters <bwaters@xxxxxxxx>]

On a Gentoo system yesterday, after installing loop-aes-3.1c I  
received the warning that the loop.ko module has an executable stack.

However, I did not receive that message just now when re-installing.




On Feb 8, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Venkat Manakkal wrote:

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> Hi Jari,
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> I'm having trouble getting the latest hardened kernel and loop-aes  
> happy with
> each other, I've used older hardened kernels before. I suspect it  
> is over
> ambitious lockdown of PaX and GrSecurity.
>
>
> # head -c 15 /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 \
> |         | losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop3 /dev/md/1
> Segmentation fault
>
> uname -a output:
>
> Linux kbw 2.6.14-hardened-r5 #4 SMP Thu Feb 9 11:27:10 GMT 2006  
> i686 Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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