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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: segfaults and sockets
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:32:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040705133230.7439d301.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40E9B8D0.10508@blue-labs.org>

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:23:44 -0400
David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> wrote:


> ioctl(5, 0x8906, 0x7fbfffeff0)          = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

0x8906 is SIOCGSTAMP, aparently the app isn't using a large enough
structure to capture the timestamp, and the kernel is thus overwriting
some critical part of the stack causing it to crash.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-05 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-05 20:23 segfaults and sockets David Ford
2004-07-05 20:32 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-07-05 20:42   ` David Ford

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