Bug#44654: dpkg: seg faults w/2.3.17; problem traced to sysinfo() call
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 04:56:13AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> dpkg under my self-compiled Linux 2.3.17 seg faults on startup if a
> non-dpkg-deb option is given. The problem is avoided if the call to
> sysinfo() in main/filesdb.c is bypassed. I can't see what's going
> wrong (it's probably something in kernel space clobbering user space,
> but the code seems fine and probably hasn't changed in a while).
Me Too (tm).
I had read the 2.3.17 patch beforehand and some neurons in my brain
connected and made me think of this part of the 2.3.17 patch being the
culprit:
diff -urN linux-pre1/include/linux/kernel.h linux/include/linux/kernel.h
--- linux-pre1/include/linux/kernel.h Tue Aug 31 14:17:19 1999
+++ linux/include/linux/kernel.h Tue Sep 7 18:08:32 1999
@@ -91,11 +91,12 @@
unsigned long freeram; /* Available memory size */
unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
- unsigned long totalbig; /* Total big memory size */
- unsigned long freebig; /* Available big memory size */
unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
unsigned long freeswap; /* swap space still available */
unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
+ unsigned long totalbig; /* Total big memory size */
+ unsigned long freebig; /* Available big memory size */
+ char _f[22-2*sizeof(long)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
};
#endif
...Not sure what the original point of this patch is, but reversing it
makes things work agian.
Simon-
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