[PATCH kexec-tools v2 04/32] kdump: fix kdump mapping

Pratyush Anand panand at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 19:05:50 PDT 2016


On 06/06/2016:05:59:03 PM, Russell King wrote:
> When kdump tries to map the program header, it fails to take account
> of ehdr->e_phoff being an offset from the start of the ELF "file",
> which causes:
> 
> Cannot mmap /dev/mem offset: 64 size: 392: Invalid argument
> 
> Ensure that we take account of the start address when mapping this.
> 
> This fix has been extracted from a larger patch by Vitaly Andrianov
> adding support for Keystone 2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
> ---
>  kdump/kdump.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kdump/kdump.c b/kdump/kdump.c
> index 1f5b984..34d2149 100644
> --- a/kdump/kdump.c
> +++ b/kdump/kdump.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	}
>  	
>  	/* Get the program header */
> -	phdr = map_addr(fd, sizeof(*phdr)*(ehdr->e_phnum), ehdr->e_phoff);
> +	phdr = map_addr(fd, sizeof(*phdr)*(ehdr->e_phnum), 
> +			start_addr + ehdr->e_phoff);
>  
>  	/* Collect up the notes */
>  	note_bytes = 0;
> -- 
> 1.9.1



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