Re: segfaults and sockets

[David Ford]

Thank you, I've forwarded/reported the bug.

David S. Miller wrote:

> 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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