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| author | Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> | 2010-08-06 16:37:47 +0800 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com> | 2010-08-06 18:33:15 +0100 |
| commit | f4cb0870acd980a35e6e87b5bcf548a4452fd6a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7168f1111fed02e9e2367bb2b84481fe6dfbd0c0 /meta/packages/module-init-tools | |
| parent | 45d237b3bf7262d0a73098b04e8b162528ba99c0 (diff) | |
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module-init-tools: fix depmod caused segfault issue
memset is required after malloc in grab_module, or else random segfault
may happen. The fix is from Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>.
Upstream bug is reported as:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16528
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/packages/module-init-tools')
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000..955025531 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/files/grab_module_memset.patch @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# this patch is from Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>, who ran into +# a random segfault using the latest module-init-tools (3.12) and finally +# trace back to depmod.c:grab_module, which appears that the new malloc(...) +# setups up things, but never clears the memory that was just allocated. +# +# Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, 2010-08-06 + +diff --git a/depmod.c b/depmod.c +index 647e5e6..46e03e0 100644 +--- a/depmod.c ++++ b/depmod.c +@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ static struct module *grab_module(const char *dirname, const char *filename) + + new = NOFAIL(malloc(sizeof(*new) + + strlen(dirname?:"") + 1 + strlen(filename) + 1)); ++ memset(new, 0x00, sizeof(*new) + strlen(dirname?:"") + 1 + strlen(filename) + 1); + if (dirname) + sprintf(new->pathname, "%s/%s", dirname, filename); + else diff --git a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-cross_3.12.bb b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-cross_3.12.bb index c4b411846..08bf1a95e 100644 --- a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-cross_3.12.bb +++ b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-cross_3.12.bb @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ require module-init-tools.inc -PR = "r0" +PR = "r1" inherit cross PROVIDES += "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}depmod virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}depmod-2.6" diff --git a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc index 7c9b3f7fa..f1319ad90 100644 --- a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc +++ b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ FILES_module-init-tools-insmod-static = "${sbindir}/insmod.static" SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-${PV}.tar.bz2 \ file://ignore_arch_directory.patch \ file://modutils_extension.patch \ - file://disable_man.patch" + file://disable_man.patch \ + file://grab_module_memset.patch" inherit autotools diff --git a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools_3.12.bb b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools_3.12.bb index 6fd9d9dc0..6c312b4ce 100644 --- a/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools_3.12.bb +++ b/meta/packages/module-init-tools/module-init-tools_3.12.bb @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ require module-init-tools.inc -PR = "r0" +PR = "r1" # autotools set prefix to /usr, however we want them in /bin and /sbin bindir = "/bin" |