From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a.out issue
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:11:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041112001145.GB22336@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041111220906.GA1670@dereference.de>
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Florian Heinz took 20 lines to write:
> Hi ppl,
>
> there seems to be a bug related to a.out-binfmt.
>
> try executing this binary:
> perl -e'print"\x07\x01".("\x00"x13)."\xc0".("\x00"x16)'>eout
> (it may be neccessary to turn memory overcommit on before)
>
> This should result in a kernel-oops.
> Doing this in a loop will eat fd's and memory.
>
> seems like find_vma_prepare does not what insert_vm_struct expects when
> the whole addresspace is occupied.
No oops over here, with overcommit set to 0, 1, or 2.
$ uname -a
Linux luther 2.6.9 #12 Sun Oct 31 07:43:57 EST 2004 i686 unknown unknown
GNU/Linux
Kurt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-12 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 22:09 a.out issue Florian Heinz
2004-11-11 22:23 ` Ed Schouten
2004-11-11 22:29 ` Ed Schouten
2004-11-11 22:32 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-11 23:05 ` Ed Schouten
2004-11-11 23:31 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-12 0:11 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2004-11-12 3:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-12 3:51 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-12 7:15 ` Chris Wright
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