From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 'paxctl -m bin' everything that complains?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:21:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10901221221t413fafe6qa8f4cf70ce8dd216@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4255c2570901221126p1d52dbc3r649fbf21793fd49a@mail.gmail.com>
>> I'm getting a lot of messages like this in dmesg:
>>
>> "denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE"
>>
>> Should I 'paxctl -m bin' all of these even if they seem to function OK anyway?
>
> You're barking up the wrong tree. Applications are trying to coredump
> (or prepare for one), and your default size limit for that (0) is
> lower than what they're trying to allocate. You're seeing those
> specific logs because you have CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RESLOG on, but it
> would be happening whether or not you were running -hardened.
>
> Check out 'ulimit -a' or search for 'ulimit' in bash(1).
Got it, thank you.
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 19:06 [gentoo-hardened] 'paxctl -m bin' everything that complains? Grant
2009-01-22 19:26 ` RB
2009-01-22 20:21 ` Grant [this message]
2009-01-22 21:01 ` Grant
2009-01-22 21:08 ` RB
2009-01-23 3:07 ` Grant
2009-01-23 4:12 ` RB
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=49bf44f10901221221t413fafe6qa8f4cf70ce8dd216@mail.gmail.com \
--to=emailgrant@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox