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-
-Several issues here:
-
- * [[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_gnumach]] Even invalid `mmap` shoudn't
- crash the process.
-
- * [[!tag open_issue_documentation]] The memory layout example should be
- documented.
-
- * [[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] New `vm_map` allocation strategy may be
- desirable; see also [[placement_of_virtual_memory_regions]].
-
- * [[!tag open_issue_glibc]] *task X deallocating an invalid port Y, most
- probably a bug*.
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-11
-
- < zyg> oh, mmap sigsegvs, strange.
- < braunr> hwo do you see that ?
- < zyg> braunr: I'll try to paste a minimal case
- < braunr> zyg: make sure you have a sane memory setup
- < braunr> 512 RAM / 1G swap seems good
- < braunr> have more swap than RAM
- < zyg> I have those. Still it shouldn't sigsegv.
- < braunr> gnumach is picky about that
- < braunr> and yes, the hurd shouldn't have bugs
- < zyg> braunr: ready to crash? #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/mman.h> int
- main (int argc, char **argv) { mmap(0x10000, 0x8000, PROT_READ, MAP_ANON
- | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0); return 0; }
- < braunr> a fixed mapping at such an address is likely to fail, yes
- < braunr> but a crash, hm
- < zyg> why should it fail?
- < braunr> because the hurd doesn't have a common text data bss heap stack
- layout
- < braunr> e.g. there are mappings below text, as show by vminfo :
- < braunr> $ vminfo $$
- < braunr> 0[0x1000] (prot=0)
- < braunr> 0x1000[0x21000] (prot=RX, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=105)
- < braunr> 0x22000[0x1000] (prot=R, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=105)
- < braunr> 0x23000[0x1000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=105)
- < braunr> 0x24000[0x1000] (prot=0, max_prot=RWX)
- < braunr> 0x25000[0xfff000] (prot=RWX, mem_obj=106)
- < braunr> 0x1024000[0x1000] (prot=RWX, mem_obj=107)
- < braunr> 0x1025000[0x1000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=108)
- < braunr> 0x1026000[0x1000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=108,
- offs=0x1000)
- < braunr> 0x1027000[0x1000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=109)
- < braunr> 0x1028000[0x2000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=110,
- offs=0x1000)
- < braunr> 0x102a000[0x1000] (prot=RW, max_prot=RWX, mem_obj=111)
- < braunr> (sorry for the long paste)
- < zyg> oh.. my mmap falls into an occupied range?
- < braunr> seems so
- < zyg> thanks, that was really useful.
- < braunr> MAP_FIXED isn't portable, this is clearly stated in most man
- pages
- < zyg> yes, implementation specific it says
- < braunr> well the behaviour isn't specific, it's well defined, but the
- memory layout isn't
- < braunr> i personally think vm_map() should be slightly changed to include
- a new flag for top-down allocations
- < braunr> so that our stack and libraries are at high addresses, below the
- kernel
- < braunr> zyg: what kind of error do you get ? i don't get sigsegv
- < zyg> I get both sigsegv and sigill depending on addr
- < braunr> ok
- < braunr> i get sigill with your example
- < braunr> the error is the same (wrong memory access) but the behaviour
- changes because of the special memory configuration
- < zyg> yes.. I guess the usecase is too uncommon. Else mmap would have an
- guard
- < braunr> some accesses cause invalid page faults (which are sent as
- segmentation faults) while other cause general protection faults (which
- are sent as illegal instructions)
- < braunr> (this is quite weird since the GP fault is likely because the
- access targets something out of the data or code segment eh)
- < zyg> braunr: that's very os-specific. Do you mean hurd behaves that way?
- < braunr> gnumach
- < braunr> on i386
- < braunr> the segmant configuration isn't completely flat
- < braunr> segment*
- < braunr> hm nice
- < braunr> your small program triggers the "task X deallocating an invalid
- port Y, most probably a bug." message
- < zyg> where do you see that?
- < braunr> on the mach console