Re: reading from invalid mem...

Chmouel Boudjnah (chmouel@mandrakesoft.com)
03 Aug 1999 07:46:57 +0200


Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On 31 Jul 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
>
> > > I can reproduce this with the 2.2.9-19mdk binary, but not with a custom
> > > compiled 2.2.9. Perhaps the Mandrake binary has a patch that introduces a
> > > bug in ELF core-dumping, or perhaps it is a config-specific thing.
> >
> > It's a .config specific configuration, try to recompile the SRPMS of
> > kernel-2.2.9-19mdk and see if you can reproduce it.
>
> I can. The e2compr patch seems to be implicated, since it adds semaphore
> operations to binfmt_elf.c.. in elf_core_dump.

Yes you right, anyway we have removed the patch since 2.2.10.

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