Re: Bug Report: Dereferencing a bad pointer

From: David Chandler (chandler@grammatech.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 18:15:08 EST

0xc0001000 hangs the same way that 0xc0000000 does. I have reproduced
this on a 2.4.9+UML kernel running in user-mode linux on top of a
Pentium-4 2.4.2-2(RedHat) host. 'top' says that 75% of CPU is going to
the system in that case also.

Please Cc: me on any replies.

David Chandler 

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David L. Chandler.                              GrammaTech, Inc.
mailto:chandler@grammatech.com         http://www.grammatech.com

Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> David Chandler wrote:
> >
> > Debugging the offender,
> >         int main() { int k =  (int *)0xc0000000; }
> > is not very informative: single-stepping over the sole command just
> > hangs, and you have to press Control-C to interrupt gdb, at which point
> > you can single-step right into the same problem again.
> >
> > When the program hangs, 'top' says that the CPU is fully utilized and
> > the system is spending 80% of its time in the kernel and 20% in the
> > offending process.
> >
> > Have you not been able to duplicate it on a 2.4 kernel on x86?  If not,
> > please tell me which 2.4 kernel correctly seg faults.
> 
> How about address 0xc0001000?  I have been unable to reproduce this on a
> PII running 2.4.9, and an Athlon running 2.4.14.
> 
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> 
>                                 Brian Gerst
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