Building hardened kernel on hardened profile, with CONFIG_PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW enabled makes NFSD4 throw tracebacks like that. [ 89.515751] PAX: size overflow detected in function nfsd_cache_update fs/nfsd/nfscache.c:267 cicus.114_58 min, count: 26 [ 89.515759] Pid: 1206, comm: nfsd Not tainted 3.8.8-hardened #1 [ 89.515762] Call Trace: [ 89.515775] [<ffffffff81129a51>] report_size_overflow+0x24/0x2e [ 89.515784] [<ffffffff8123bbea>] nfsd_cache_update+0xad/0x1cf [ 89.515791] [<ffffffff812341c6>] nfsd_dispatch+0x146/0x159 [ 89.515799] [<ffffffff815fbd62>] svc_process_common+0x290/0x43e [ 89.515807] [<ffffffff814e0f80>] ? skb_release_data+0x117/0x11c [ 89.515813] [<ffffffff81233c39>] ? nfsd_destroy+0x66/0x66 [ 89.515819] [<ffffffff815fc11d>] svc_process+0x107/0x125 [ 89.515825] [<ffffffff81233cfe>] nfsd+0xc5/0x117 [ 89.515832] [<ffffffff810624a3>] kthread+0x88/0x90 [ 89.515839] [<ffffffff81060000>] ? param_attr_show+0x4e/0x6c [ 89.515845] [<ffffffff8106241b>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x39/0x39 [ 89.515852] [<ffffffff81671bf2>] ret_from_fork+0x72/0xa0 [ 89.515859] [<ffffffff8106241b>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x39/0x39 For example, following link says, that bug exists even in 3.8.6: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2445311/ Reproducible: Always
Confirming this issue, CCing author of the suggested patch. Unfortunately, this patch did not resolve the issue, nfsd process still segfaults. web ~ # dmesg [ 203.702711] PAX: size overflow detected in function nfsd_cache_update fs/nfsd/nfscache.c:269 cicus.114_63 min, count: 28 [ 203.702719] Pid: 3910, comm: nfsd Not tainted 3.8.6-hardened-WEB #2 [ 203.702721] Call Trace: [ 203.702733] [<ffffffff811133e4>] ? report_size_overflow+0x24/0x30 [ 203.702739] [<ffffffff8122541b>] ? nfsd_cache_update+0x25b/0x290 [ 203.702745] [<ffffffff8121a9ef>] ? nfsd_dispatch+0x13f/0x1c0 [ 203.702750] [<ffffffff815bb317>] ? svc_process+0x477/0x780 [ 203.702754] [<ffffffff8121a387>] ? nfsd+0xb7/0x130 [ 203.702759] [<ffffffff8121a2d0>] ? nfsd_destroy+0x70/0x70 [ 203.702764] [<ffffffff81071413>] ? kthread+0xb3/0xc0 [ 203.702774] [<ffffffff81071360>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xa0/0xa0 [ 203.702776] [<ffffffff815e9722>] ? ret_from_fork+0x72/0xa0 [ 203.702778] [<ffffffff81071360>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xa0/0xa0 emerge --info: web ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.62 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Same problem here. 3.9.4-hardened-r1 works fine for me.
(In reply to Vicente Olivert Riera from comment #2) > Same problem here. 3.9.4-hardened-r1 works fine for me. Yes. Fixed in upstream (?) or, just silently by blueness.