[grsec] Re: Bad EIP Value on Athalon 700

[Ned Ludd]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:39, Dennis Freise wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:59:10 +0000 (GMT)
> John Logsdon <j.logsdon at quantex-research.com> wrote:
> 
> > I too have been caught out hand-editing .config files - although on this
> > occasion it just didn't work!  
> 
> Well, I've been caught by this too. I also copied my old .config to the new
> kernel source tree, did 'make oldconfig' and ended up with KERNEXEC=y and
> PCI_BIOS=y. Checking 'make menuconfig' I'm still able to select whatever I like
> for PCI access, selecting 'any' does not disable kernexec...

A gentoo user reports.

"Had to change PCI access method in menuconfig from 'any' to 'direct' -
else it did change CONFIG_PCI_BIOS always back to 'y' on compile. Now it
works :)
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar at gentoo.org>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded) Developer
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