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Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 'paxctl -m bin' everything that complains?
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> 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).
I read about ulimit and I'm wondering if I need to worry about
increasing that coredump size from zero. Can I just ignore those
grsec messages without causing a problem?
- Grant