On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:21:18 +0100 Ivan Delalande <colona at arista.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:31:50AM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote: >[...] > > just a short status update. I haven't forgotten this patch, but I've > > had some troubles reproducing the issue. To make sure I'm not on the > > wrong track, what happened when you tried to dump dmesg on the affected > > dump file without the patch? > > > > For me, I crafted a dump file which causes a segfault. Did makedumpfile > > also terminate on SIGSEGV? Did it report an error? Or did it just > > produce wrong output? > > Yeah, just a segfault, without any other message or output. It was > coming from readpage_elf, at the call to memset in the `if (!offset1)` > block, as it thinks it is handling one of this weird overlapping > segments from ia64 and computes bad offsets. Good. Then I was looking at the same bug, but fixed it differently. Anyway, thank you very much for the original fix! It set me in the right direction. Petr T
