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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trinity: lots of free(): invalid pointer
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:37:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120213759.GA11834@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DD7E2E.7000307@suse.cz>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 08:51:10PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
 
 > (gdb) l * 0x410fa4
 > 0x410fa4 is in post_modify_ldt (syscalls/modify_ldt.c:62).
 > 57
 > 58              ptr = (void *) shm->scratch[childno];
 > 59
 > 60              if (ptr != NULL)
 > 61                      free(ptr);
 > 62      }
 > 63
 > 64      struct syscallentry syscall_modify_ldt = {
 > 65              .name = "modify_ldt",
 > 66              .num_args = 3,
 > 

That syscall should probably be marked as AVOID for now, as it's pretty easy
to completely screw up the LDT and segv. We'll need to be a bit more
creative to make it actually find bugs.
 
	Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 22:37 trinity: lots of free(): invalid pointer Jiri Slaby
2014-01-17 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2014-01-20 19:31   ` Jiri Slaby
2014-01-20 19:51     ` Jiri Slaby
2014-01-20 21:37       ` Dave Jones [this message]

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