[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Fix segmentation fault

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 18:21:53 UTC 2009


----- "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:

> * Executing crash without any parameter results in a segmentation fault.
> * Add a NULL check for pc->orig_namelist to avoid the segmentation fault.

Huh?

The crash utility's program_context structure doesn't even
have an "orig_namelist" member.

Is this perhaps a bug in the SUSE crash utility derivative?

Dave


> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp at in.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
> 
> 
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> symbols.c |    3 +++
> 
>
>
> diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c
> --- a/symbols.c
> +++ b/symbols.c
> @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@
>                 error(NOTE, "gnu_debuglink file: %s\ncrc32: %lx\n",
>                         contents, crc32);
>
> +       if (pc->orig_namelist == NULL)
> +               return FALSE;
> +
>         if ((pc->debuginfo_file = (char *)
>             malloc(((strlen(pc->namelist) + strlen("/.debug/") +
>             + strlen(".debug") + strlen(" /usr/lib/debug/boot/ "))*10)




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