[PATCH] makedumpfile: omit those section has 0 size
Lei Wen
leiwen at marvell.com
Sun Sep 4 12:02:39 EDT 2011
If the area reserved for the kdump is at the end of system memory, then
it would occur such case that the second sector is turly 0 size. And as
the beginnig of the second sector is already out of system memory range.
Try to access this range, would cause makedumpfile failed.
Signed-off-by: Lei Wen <leiwen at marvell.com>
---
makedumpfile.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
index 7d0c663..3f8d9af 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.c
+++ b/makedumpfile.c
@@ -1336,6 +1336,8 @@ get_elf_info(void)
}
if (phdr.p_type != PT_LOAD)
continue;
+ if (phdr.p_filesz == 0)
+ continue;
if (j == 0) {
info->offset_load_memory = phdr.p_offset;
@@ -5756,6 +5758,8 @@ write_elf_pages(struct cache_data *cd_header, struct cache_data *cd_page)
if (load.p_type != PT_LOAD)
continue;
+ if (load.p_filesz == 0)
+ continue;
off_memory= load.p_offset;
paddr = load.p_paddr;
--
1.7.0.4
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