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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: Compiling xenlinux 2.4.29 with grsec.. help needed
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:11:11PM -0500, Brad Spengler wrote:
> > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> > -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
> > -march=i686 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=fault -c -o
> > fault.o fault.c
> > fault.c: In function o_page_fault':
> > fault.c:135: warning: passing arg 1 of xpand_stack' from incompatible
> > pointer type
> > fault.c:135: warning: passing arg 2 of xpand_stack' makes pointer from
> > integer without a cast
> > fault.c:135: error: too few arguments to function xpand_stack'
> > make[5]: *** [fault.o] Error 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory
> > /root/stuff/xen/xen-2.0-grsec/linux-2.4.29-xenU/arch/xen/mm'
> > make[4]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > /root/stuff/xen/xen-2.0-grsec/linux-2.4.29-xenU/arch/xen/mm'
> > make[3]: *** [_dir_arch/xen/mm] Error 2
> > make[3]: Leaving directory /root/stuff/xen/xen-2.0-grsec/linux-2.4.29-xenU'
> > make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory /root/stuff/xen/xen-2.0-grsec'
> > make[1]: *** [linux-2.4-xenU-build] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory /root/stuff/xen/xen-2.0-grsec'
> > make: *** [kernels] Error 2
> >
> > So it seems that some hacking is required in arch/xen/mm/fault.c .. I don't
> > have enough knowledge about linux memory management and/or grsec stuff so I
> > can't do this.. If somebody is willing to take a look at this, it would be
> > nice!
>
> Most likely the change that has to be made is to add another argument to
> the expand_stack calls in the file. Change it so it looks like:
> expand_stack(current, <previous args here>);
>
> Unless the function in which expand_stack is called has a task_struct *
> argument passed to it. In that case, use whatever variable name that is
> instead of current.
>
Thanks!
With this change, grsec patched xenlinux 2.4.29 compiles OK.
But.. the resulting kernel doesn't work. it crashes during boot.
Well, it seems this needs more work & debugging..
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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