From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQ6g4-0008HT-UN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:01:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3FF0E0638; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A199E0638 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so767887nfi.26 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:01:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fEoTGHbOIbBLxOo/jutJi3Ov/BNb8sQieoplTPR14lY=; b=TinhkFzbatroKSY4P9nqBy5+Y8XHIWf/d6wfLM7ZOO6PJFcnfEOgzOvIgiINiKGZHF 9jgY+GgPobC2KC0c2w4Ya1SLz6k2tmqAQMT6yOHxLluvjAfJBmxyv/gM5hhFQP/xGNjX t2A/kSgtWtLB7Km0kfR4Dv2wVUzqKXmmdg0AM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EyRhplJ4xLQslMb28mze3OC0AGJ47WbSLu4MC8QLqEvEzw6gf5H4Ndqfgoacc6YWBH 3IIZVw5/nut8VwmUv61EmQVmY/ORBTZGUylb0cRUio3vp3RtHF17Nv8ppqEFMIB7OsjU Cdw5wq6w4Phgl8+cwERHKCKs9bQYn1KOOVfeg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr7933091ebi.174.1232658086915; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:01:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4255c2570901221126p1d52dbc3r649fbf21793fd49a@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10901221106n630d668fwc7fe390f53a600b8@mail.gmail.com> <4255c2570901221126p1d52dbc3r649fbf21793fd49a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:01:26 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10901221301k47941d92lc717e237a657e139@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 'paxctl -m bin' everything that complains? From: Grant To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 626960cd-ed6f-4ece-9c69-f8b37426a361 X-Archives-Hash: 17294b4460f7d9956f92d52926fbaa92 >> 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