ASLR sometimes stops working on Vista with 1.7? [was: Re: Cygwin 1.7 release (was ...)]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun  6 01:15, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Not good.  I'm puzzled where this allocated 68K region is exactly coming
> > from, but it really looks like something which occurs in or near dlopen.
> > 
> > I'm going to debug this further tomorrow.  I guess that goes without
> > saying, but I'd be glad for any help.
> 
>   I'll just suggest that these problems can often be debugged more easily in
> windbg than gdb, what with gflags/appverifier heap tracking, !vad, !heap, and
> related commands.  The gflags FLG_HEAP_ENABLE_TAG_BY_DLL might come in handy here.

Right.  You might have noticed in my mail that I refer to WinDbg
already.  It has a couple of invaluable helpers.  !vprot is one of my
favorites, as well as the many available display formats in the memory
window.

This morning I woke up and suddenly knew what's going on.  It's the size
of a structure, which had a size of 320 bytes before.  Now it has a size
of 65596 bytes since the filename stored in it is now a potentially 32K
long wide character string.  The structure must be shrinked again.  I
guess I have a patch by tonight.


Stay tuned,
Corinna

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