Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752047Ab1F3U65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:58:57 -0400 Received: from acheron.ifi.lmu.de ([129.187.214.135]:51577 "EHLO acheron.ifi.lmu.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751291Ab1F3U6z (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:58:55 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1708 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:58:55 EDT From: Michael Brade Organization: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit=E4t?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_M=FCnchen?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: found the reason for: utsrelease.h contains "CHK include/generated/utsrelease" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:30:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39.2-grsec+; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106302230.25239.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 27 Hi, > I repeatedly get garbled output in utsrelease.h when compiling my own > kernel. > To reproduce: > > make mrproper > make allnoconfig > make prepare > > Output of "cat include/generated/utsrelease.h": > CHK include/generated/utsrelease I have spent many more hours analyzing this and finally found exactly what causes this problem: doing "make prepare" under a running kernel with the grsecurity/PAX option CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF set to Yes. I will post this in the grsecurity forums as well, it seems to be their bug after all. cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/