Bug#579917: mkhomedir segfaults within ld.so on startup

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:44:56AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> on an squeeze machine:
> LD_DEBUG=all /lib/ld-2.10.2.so ./mkhomedir_helper 
>       6625:     file=/tmp/mkhomedir_helper [0];  generating link map
>       6625:       dynamic: 0x004001c0  base: 0x00000000   size: 0x000139e0
>       6625:         entry: 0x004008f0  phdr: 0x00400034  phnum:          9
>       6625:
> Segmentation fault

| gabrielli% LD_DEBUG=all /lib/ld.so.1 /sbin/mkhomedir_helper                
|      10223:     file=/sbin/mkhomedir_helper [0];  generating link map
|      10223:       dynamic: 0x004001c0  base: 0x00000000   size: 0x000139e0
|      10223:         entry: 0x004008f0  phdr: 0x00400034  phnum:          9
|      10223:
| zsh: segmentation fault  LD_DEBUG=all /lib/ld.so.1 /sbin/mkhomedir_helper
| gabrielli% ls -al /sbin/mkhomedir_helper 
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16384 18. Feb 11:49 /sbin/mkhomedir_helper

The reported size (0x000139e0) is much larger than the actual binary size.

Bastian

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