On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:49 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On SÃnnavend 26 MÃrz 2005 09:18, Bart Oldeman wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > eip: 0x000069ee esp: 0xbfdbffcc eflags: 0x00010246 > > > > > > hmm interesting. Can you check if at the time of the crash, the esp is > > > actually inside the stack vma? If it's not, I wonder what dosemu does to > > > get its stack pointer outside the vma... (and on which side of the vma > > > it is) > > The esp value is always slightly below the stack vma and above ld.so. > Running it a few times gives > > stack VMA crash esp > bfc8f000-bfca4000 bfc5ffcc
the esp is 0x2F034/192564 bytes below the stack vma. That is a lot! I vaguely remember linux having a limit to how much below the stack vma it will allow accesses to auto-grow the stack, but I forgot what that limit actually was. I wonder if dosemu is somehow getting away with assuming a certain alignment by accident and then being inside the kernel grow limit, while with randomisation the alignment is only 4Kb and somehow a bigger-than-expected auto-grow is needed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
