staprun segmentation fault with module `fglrx' in use

[Guanqun Lu]

On 3/19/07, Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 02:50 +0000, Guanqun Lu wrote:
> I think the problem is that fglrx is enormous and has 167 sections. It
> was overflowing buffers and  the code in staprun wasn't checking all
> buffer writes before they happened so the overflow sometimes didn't get
> caught. I checked in changes this week that ignore the  sections that we
> obviously don't care about. I also made the temporary buffers much
> larger and made sure every buffer write was first checked to be sure it
> would fit, so at least we should get an error message and clean exit.
>
> Martin
>

Thanks for the explaination. It makes sense.

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Guanqun