[grsec] pid randomization problem - process won't execute and will return zero value

Luc Saillard luc.grsecurity at saillard.org
Mon Aug 22 07:07:52 EDT 2005


On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:09:03PM -0400, Brad Spengler wrote:
 
> spender at gw:~$ time until /bin/false; do :; done
> 
> real    54m1.585s
> user    14m23.566s
> sys     35m39.655s
> 
> So is the problem that it happens too quickly with a grsec kernel?
> Also, am I the only one who can replicate this problem in a clean Linux 
> kernel?
> 

I've run the test for 4 hours without problem on a vanilla kernel (2.6.11),
bash (GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)).

Luc


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