Re: ancient portmap segfault

[Mark Studebaker]

Andi,
thanks for the response.

The code forks immediately and the new process segfaults immediately. 
> From an inspection of 'strace -f' on a working version, the next call
would have been setsid() . (The library call in the code is daemon(0,0)).
The original Makefile has an LDFLAG of -N (OMAGIC: make text secion writable, 
don't page-align the data section.... No idea why).

If I compile with ancient gcc/ld,
it works after compiling without -N and segfaults when compiling with -N.
If I compile with a recent gcc/ld, it works fine.

here's an objump of the segfaulting portmap
------------------------------------------------
>  objdump -x /usr/sbin/portmap

/usr/sbin/portmap:     file format a.out-i386-linux
/usr/sbin/portmap
architecture: i386, flags 0x00000002:
EXEC_P
start address 0x00000000

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
 0 .text         00000f7c  00000000  00000000  00000020  2**2
                 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
 1 .data         00000110  00000f7c  00000f7c  00000f9c  2**2
                 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 2 .bss          00000018  0000108c  0000108c  00000000  2**2
                 ALLOC
SYMBOL TABLE:
no symbols

-------------------
and here's the objdump of the test without -N

>  objdump -h a.out

a.out:     file format a.out-i386-linux

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
 0 .text         00001fe0  00001020  00001020  00000020  2**3
                 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
 1 .data         00001000  00003000  00003000  00002000  2**3
                 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 2 .bss          00000000  00004000  00004000  00000000  2**3
                 ALLOC



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so maybe the alignment difference is the problem?

as I said before, I have things working, only reporting this on the possibility
that it's a bug worth  investigating.

thanks
mds


Andi Kleen wrote:
> Mark Studebaker <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.11.2 and my ancient (libc4 a.out) /sbin/portmap from 1994 that's been running without complaint
> > on kernels for 11 years now consistently segfaults.
> >
> > I upgraded to a version 4 RPM (circa 2002) and that fixed it.
> >
> > If some compatibility was broken on purpose, that's fine, although I couldn't find anything in the kernel docs.
> > I know, I should upgrade everything, but that can break a lot of things too...
> > Thought I'd mention it though in case it's a bug or somebody else has the same problem.
>
>
> It's probably a bug, but your bug report doesn't have enough details
> to track it down. Do you have a a.out strace and could send an strace log
> with the segfault and the last tens of system calls before it?
>
> -Andi


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