[Crash-utility] CA SEOS module causes heartburn for crash(1)

[Dave Anderson]

"Kurtis D. Rader" wrote:

> I was asked to look at a s390 SUSE dump which had the Computer Associates
> SEOS product modules loaded (seos and ksymadd). They exported symbols
> with addresses well below the address space for modules. For example,
> "dynamic_Seos_syscall_num" with an address of 0x4f90dc0 which is well
> below the base of the first module at 0x7880d000. This results in crash
> trying to mmap an anonymous 1.9 GB region. Which naturally fails on a
> s390 system where the address space is only 2 GiB in size.
>
> Anyone else run across this? Should crash be able to deal with this or
> should I simply tell the customer to stop using CA's SEOS product if they
> want us to look at their crash dumps?
>

Hi Kurt,

I'm deferring this to the IBM guys who deal with s390, SUSE kernels, and
whatever dumpfile format this is (LKCD or s390 native?).

But I'm curious -- where in the crash utliity is an mmap being done?

Dave


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