Sometimes, in a production environment, there are still some vmcores that are incomplete, such as partial header or the data is corrupted. When crash tool attempts to parse such vmcores, it may fail as below: $ ./crash --osrelease vmcore Bus error (core dumped) or $ crash vmlinux vmcore ... Bus error (core dumped) $ The gdb sees that crash tool reads out a null bitmap from the header in this vmcore, when executing memcpy(), emits a SIGBUS error as below: $ gdb /home/lijiang/src/crash/crash /tmp/core.126301 Core was generated by `./crash --osrelease /home/lijiang/src/39317/vmcore'. Program terminated with signal SIGBUS, Bus error. #0 __memcpy_evex_unaligned_erms () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:831 831 LOAD_ONE_SET((%rsi), PAGE_SIZE, %VMM(4), %VMM(5), %VMM(6), %VMM(7)) (gdb) bt #0 __memcpy_evex_unaligned_erms () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:831 #1 0x0000000000651096 in read_dump_header (file=0x7ffc59ddff5f "/home/lijiang/src/39317/vmcore") at diskdump.c:820 #2 0x0000000000651cf3 in is_diskdump (file=0x7ffc59ddff5f "/home/lijiang/src/39317/vmcore") at diskdump.c:1042 #3 0x0000000000502ac9 in get_osrelease (dumpfile=0x7ffc59ddff5f "/home/lijiang/src/39317/vmcore") at main.c:1938 #4 0x00000000004fb2e8 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffc59dde3a8) at main.c:271 (gdb) frame 1 #1 0x0000000000651096 in read_dump_header (file=0x7ffc59ddff5f "/home/lijiang/src/39317/vmcore") at diskdump.c:820 820 memcpy(dd->dumpable_bitmap, dd->bitmap + bitmap_len/2, (gdb) p dd->dumpable_bitmap $1 = 0x7f8e89800010 "" (gdb) p dd->bitmap $2 = 0x7f8e87e09000 "" (gdb) p dd->bitmap + bitmap_len/2 $3 = 0x7f8e88a17000 "" (gdb) p *(char*)(dd->bitmap+bitmap_len/2) $4 = 0 '\000' (gdb) p bitmap_len/2 $5 = 12640256 Let's add a sanity check for such cases to avoid causing a SIGBUS error. With the patch: $ crash -s vmlinux vmcore crash: vmcore: not a supported file format ... Enter "crash -h" for details. $ crash --osrelease vmcore unknown Reported-by: Buland Kumar Singh <bsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diskdump.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/diskdump.c b/diskdump.c index 1f7118cacfc6..c31eab01aa05 100644 --- a/diskdump.c +++ b/diskdump.c @@ -814,10 +814,12 @@ restart: madvise(dd->bitmap, bitmap_len, MADV_WILLNEED); } - if (dump_is_partial(header)) + if (dump_is_partial(header)) { + if (*(char*)(dd->bitmap + bitmap_len/2) == '\0') + goto err; memcpy(dd->dumpable_bitmap, dd->bitmap + bitmap_len/2, bitmap_len/2); - else + } else memcpy(dd->dumpable_bitmap, dd->bitmap, bitmap_len); dd->data_offset -- 2.45.1 -- Crash-utility mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://${domain_name}/admin/lists/devel.lists.crash-utility.osci.io/ Contribution Guidelines: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/wiki