segfault with backtrace and information

segfault with backtrace and information

[Peter Jay Salzman]

dosemu consistantly segfaults on one of my machines.

i'm using version 1.1.3.7 with the experimental sound patches under
vanilla 2.4.20.  machine arch is AMD athlon 1st generation 1.4 GHz with
a 1st generation ATI radeon.

the machine didn't oops.

backtrace is follows:

   lucifer# gdb /usr/local/bin/dos-debug 
   (gdb) run
   Starting program: /usr/local/bin/dos-debug 
   Linux kernel 2.4.19; CPU speed is 1300264000 Hz
   Dosemu-1.1.3.7 Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
   
   Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
   0x080aeda4 in real_yylex (yylval=0x4d003b) at lexer.l:707
   707                                     yylval->s_value = strdup(&yytext[1]);
   (gdb) bt
   #0  0x080aeda4 in real_yylex (yylval=0x4d003b) at lexer.l:707
   #1  0x08107251 in _IO_stdin_used ()

the area of code:

   (gdb) l 707
   702     {STRQUOTELESS}          MAY_BEFORME {
   703                               yylval->s_value = strdup(yytext);
   704                               EXPRTYPE(yylval->s_value) = TYPE_STRQUOTELESS;
   705                               return(STRING); }
   706     ${IDENT}                MAY_BE {
   707                                     yylval->s_value = strdup(&yytext[1]);
   708                                     EXPRTYPE(yylval->s_value) =
   TYPE_STRQUOTELESS;
   709                                     return(VARIABLE);
   710                             }
   711     $${IDENT}               MAY_BE { enter_macrofile(&yytext[2]);}

   (gdb) printf "%s", &yytext[1]
   _DOSEMU_ORIG_PATH(gdb) 
   
   (gdb) printf "%s", strdup(&yytext[1])
   _DOSEMU_ORIG_PATH(gdb) 
   
   (gdb) printf "%s", yylval->s_value
   Cannot access memory at address 0x4d003b
   
   (gdb) printf "%s", yylval->s_value
   Cannot access memory at address 0x4d003b
   
   (gdb) ptype yylval->s_value
   type = char *
   
   (gdb) p yylval->s_value = strdup(&yytext[1]) 
   Cannot access memory at address 0x4d003b

i'm a bit confused at this point.  it looks like the address returned by
strdup is no good, but i have no idea how that can be.

strace provides no help:

   write(2, "Linux kernel 2.4.19; CPU speed i"..., 48) = 48
   write(2, "Dosemu-1.1.3.7 Running on CPU=58"..., 41) = 41
   brk(0x832d000)                          = 0x832d000
   --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
   +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

ltrace output pretty much confirms what the backtrace said:

   strcmp("parser_version_3", "h_lucifer")           = 8
   strcmp("parser_version_3", "c_all")               = 13
   strcmp("parser_version_3", "parser_version_3")    = 0
   strchr(""/etc/dosemu.conf"", '\n')                = NULL
   __strdup(0x08329490, 10, 0, 0x080aa782, 0x08107251) = 0x0832cb78
   --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
   +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++


dosemu works fine on my other machines.  this seems to be a problem with
this machine only, but nothing about this looks arch dependent to me.

any suggestions?

pete


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Re: segfault with backtrace and information

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> 
> dosemu consistantly segfaults on one of my machines.
 
> i'm using version 1.1.3.7 with the experimental sound patches under
> vanilla 2.4.20.  machine arch is AMD athlon 1st generation 1.4 GHz with
> a 1st generation ATI radeon.
 
sorry, this machine is running vanilla 2.4.19, not 2.4.20.

pete

Re: segfault with backtrace and information

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> #0  0x080aeda4 in real_yylex (yylval=0x4d003b) at lexer.l:707
[]
> Cannot access memory at address 0x4d003b
> i'm a bit confused at this point.  it looks like the address returned 
> by strdup is no good, but i have no idea how that can be.
It is rather an yylval points to a wrong
place (0x4d003b), so dereferencing it
fails.
Try:
(gdb) b real_yylex
(gdb) r
Breakpoint 1, real_yylex (yylval=0xbfffee78) at lex.yy.c:1598
1598		if ( yy_init )
(gdb) bt

> this seems to be a problem with
> this machine only, but nothing about this looks arch dependent to me.
Maybe optimisation? What gcc do you have?
Try different versions like 2.91 (aka kgcc
if it is a RedHat distro), 2.95 or 3.x.

> any suggestions?
Try running dosemu under a memory debugger
(I use njamd for that) - maybe it is a
memory corruption somewhere.
Or maybe upgrade your bison/flex?

Re: segfault with backtrace and information

[Emmanuel Jeandel]

Peter Jay Salzman said :
> dosemu consistantly segfaults on one of my machines.
> 
> 
> the area of code:
> 
>    (gdb) l 707
>    702     {STRQUOTELESS}          MAY_BEFORME {
>    703                               yylval->s_value = strdup(yytext);
>    704                               EXPRTYPE(yylval->s_value) = TYPE_STRQUOTELESS;
>    705                               return(STRING); }
> [snip]
Hi,

I encounter the same bug using gcc 3.2.2, bison 1.75 and flex 2.5.4

I found that parser.c calls yylex without arguments, whereas lex.yy.c defines 
yylex to be of type yylex(YYTYPE *yylval).

That means that bison does not build a pure parser, although YYPURE 
was defined.

I do not know exactly whether it is gcc or bison that is behaving wrong,
but inserting the line : 

%pure-parser

in the file parser.y.in (after the line: %start lines, for example)
was sufficient for me to solve this problem.

Regards,
Emmanuel