Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> hm, i just triggered the procfs crash below with -rc9 on a testbox. 

You have a terminally buggy piece of shit compiler.

Lookie here:

 - the bug happens on this:

	char c = *p++;

 - which has been compiled into

	8b 3a		mov    (%edx),%edi

   which is a *word* access.

 - the pointer is at the end of a page (very much on purpose):

	edx: f2a3fffe	

 - and as a result you get an exception on the *next* page:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f2a40000

and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler 
might be doing a legal optimization - the compiler really is wrong, and is 
total shit. You need to make a gcc bug-report. Because this is not a 
question of "the standard is ambiguous", this is a question of "the 
compiler turned good code into code that could SIGSEGV in user space too, 
if 'malloc()' happened to return a pointer at the end of an allocation".

			Linus
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