Hello Kumagai, while testing my changes for ELF file reading, I found a regression in makedumpfile. It now segfaults on me when creating an ELF file. I bisected the regression to this commit: commit d18796d090623d18f46c8dc608dcad9960fbbe9b Author: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai at wm.jp.nec.com> Date: Mon May 11 14:25:47 2015 +0900 [PATCH 04/13] Integrate the main logic of writing kdump file. I run my command as: makedumpfile -E -d31 vmcore-reloc.elf vmcore-reloc.d31.elf This is the backtrace: #0 memset () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S:80 #1 0x00000000004328b4 in initialize_bitmap (bitmap=0x7fffffffda30) at makedumpfile.c:3389 #2 0x00000000004328f4 in initialize_2nd_bitmap (bitmap=0x7fffffffda30) at makedumpfile.c:3403 #3 0x000000000043765c in exclude_zero_pages () at makedumpfile.c:4778 #4 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () And this is the output from valgrind: ==5092== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==5092== at 0x4C2F8EC: memset (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5092== by 0x4328B3: initialize_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3389) ==5092== by 0x4328F3: initialize_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3403) ==5092== by 0x43765B: exclude_zero_pages (makedumpfile.c:4778) ==5092== by 0x438F63: create_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:5277) ==5092== by 0x43B2EE: get_num_dumpable_cyclic (makedumpfile.c:6087) ==5092== by 0x439666: create_dump_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:5417) ==5092== by 0x4440BF: create_dumpfile (makedumpfile.c:8700) ==5092== by 0x4499FD: main (makedumpfile.c:10103) ==5092== ==5092== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==5092== at 0x4C2F957: memset (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5092== by 0x4328B3: initialize_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3389) ==5092== by 0x4328F3: initialize_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3403) ==5092== by 0x43765B: exclude_zero_pages (makedumpfile.c:4778) ==5092== by 0x438F63: create_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:5277) ==5092== by 0x43B2EE: get_num_dumpable_cyclic (makedumpfile.c:6087) ==5092== by 0x439666: create_dump_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:5417) ==5092== by 0x4440BF: create_dumpfile (makedumpfile.c:8700) ==5092== by 0x4499FD: main (makedumpfile.c:10103) ==5092== ==5092== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==5092== at 0x4C2F95D: memset (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5092== by 0x4328B3: initialize_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3389) ==5092== by 0x4328F3: initialize_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3403) ==5092== by 0x43765B: exclude_zero_pages (makedumpfile.c:4778) ==5092== by 0x438F63: create_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:5277) ==5092== by 0xFFEFFFA5F: ??? ==5092== by 0xFFEFFFA5F: ??? ==5092== by 0xFFEFFFA9F: ??? ==5092== by 0x43B2EE: get_num_dumpable_cyclic (makedumpfile.c:6087) ==5092== ==5092== Invalid write of size 8 ==5092== at 0x4C2F957: memset (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5092== by 0x4328B3: initialize_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3389) ==5092== by 0x4328F3: initialize_2nd_bitmap (makedumpfile.c:3403) ==5092== by 0x43765B: exclude_zero_pages (makedumpfile.c:4778) ==5092== Address 0xfff001000 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd I think the bitmap is not initialized properly, but I have no time now to research further. Is the above information sufficient, or do you need more info from me? Regards, Petr Tesarik