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Re: 2.12.90.0.12 Kernel Miscompile


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:03:36AM -0700, Leonard Zubkoff wrote:
>   Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:49:48 -0700
>   From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
>   You should be to copy ld/as over if you have the right shared libraries
>   installed or you don't use --enable-shared for configure. Since you
>   have isolated it to one file, you can even try as/ld by hand.
> 
> LD is the guilty party.  AS is fine.
> 
>   BTW, can you tell me how I can duplicate it on 2.2.2x, assuming I only
>   have very limited user space binaries available for 2.2 kernel.
> 
> I founds it running xemacs over "ssh -X".  The actual problem was an ioctl(5,
> 0x5309, 0) where file descriptor 5 is a network connection.  That caused the
> copy_from_user code in question to OOPS or hang, rather than returning -EFAULT
> as it should.  If you look at the dev_ioctl code, it has no protection against
> problems other than the copy_from_user code signalling an error.  Xemacs will
> start up fine on my test machine and display on my workstation, but when I use
> C-X C-C to exit, the failure occurs, and the machine hangs.
> 
> I imagine that whatever hackery is required to make the memory fault magic
> happen is busted with the latest version.  Who knows, 2.4 may fail the same
> way.

Hi Richard,

Your change:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-06/msg00289.html

breaks the Linux kernel 2.2.21 on x86. Reverting

2002-06-10  Richard Sandiford  <rsandifo@redhat.com>

        * ldlang.c (lang_size_sections_1): Skip removed output sections.

fixes it. Could you please look into it?

Thanks.


H.J.


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