Re: segfaults and sockets

[David S. Miller]

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