From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix build on older kernels without BPF.
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:59:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160726005929.GA17542@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKvgLE23r+RGDWhp3D0z9_gnbWCXJS45=mZGV+o6L3pZ=Ypkw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 05:24:43PM -0700, Vinson Lee wrote:
> > for each of these, otherwise the next syscall will be in the wrong slot.
>
> I tried making that change but trinity would crash in
> copy_syscall_table with memcpy with a NULL from[n].entry.
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000041300e in copy_syscall_table (from=0x63d840, nr=329) at
> /usr/include/bits/string3.h:52
> 52 return __builtin___memcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos0 (__dest));
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x000000000041300e in copy_syscall_table (from=0x63d840, nr=329)
> at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:52
> #1 0x00000000004130f3 in select_syscall_tables () at tables.c:491
> #2 0x0000000000413e95 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe438) at trinity.c:115
>
> tables.c
> 470 static struct syscalltable * copy_syscall_table(struct
> syscalltable *from, unsigned int nr)
> 471 {
> 472 unsigned int n;
> 473 struct syscallentry *copy;
> 474
> 475 copy = alloc_shared(nr * sizeof(struct syscallentry));
> 476 if (copy == NULL)
> 477 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> 478
> 479 for (n = 0; n < nr; n++) {
> 480 memcpy(copy + n , from[n].entry, sizeof(struct
> syscallentry));
> 481 copy[n].number = n;
> 482 copy[n].active_number = 0;
> 483 from[n].entry = ©[n];
> 484 }
> 485 return from;
> 486 }
stick a
if (from[n] == NULL)
continue
before the memcpy. Does that dtrt ?
We might segv somewhere else after patching this up. It's been so long since
I touched this stuff I don't fully recall how it works. I'll poke at it
some tomorrow.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-26 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-12 18:43 [PATCH] Fix build on older kernels without BPF Vinson Lee
2016-07-12 19:02 ` Dave Jones
2016-07-12 21:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Vinson Lee
2016-07-21 20:10 ` Dave Jones
2016-07-26 0:24 ` Vinson Lee
2016-07-26 0:59 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2016-08-04 20:36 ` Dave Jones
2016-08-05 18:44 ` Dave Jones
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