dump_unwindsyms crash

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Jul 16 11:19:00 GMT 2008


Hi -

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:03:18PM +0530, Srinivasa DS wrote:

> I hit segmentation fault while executing systemtap tests on x86_64. 
> section name(secname) was not verified for the NULL before dereferencing 
> it in dump_unwindsyms() and hence the problem.  Iam attaching the patch 
> to avoid this problem.

The patch is fine, but I wonder how come you hit this situation.  (It
hasn't hit any of my testing on fedora, rhel, ubuntu...)  Could you
analyze the core dump (dump modname/name/...) and show us the script?


- FChE



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