[grsec] problems with grsec for 2.6.13.2

Brad Spengler spender at grsecurity.net
Thu Sep 29 19:08:56 EDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:15:42AM +0200, Jakub Cerveny wrote:
> hi 
> 
> i tested the grsec patch for 2.6.13.2 from ~spender and everything seemed
> to work flawlessly until the moment when i couldn't log into the machine
> anymore remotely. ssh timeouted, but some other daemons were responding
> and machine was responding to icmp echo requests.
> this happened two times a day (today) - physical reboot was needed
> second time i've had luck and runned `top' ,load was about 80 and rising.
> same thing happened to one of my friends with this version of grsec
> 
> so i suppose we have a problem here :)

What was the last version of grsecurity you installed on your system 
that did not have this problem?  Is there anything in the system logs 
that would give a clue as to the problem?  What was the load on the 
system due to?

-Brad
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