writing a (userland) core dump with incomplete info
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:51:50 +0100
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Hey folks, a mabye stupid question: PR 58936 describes a userland process smashing its memory and triggering a core dump, but due to the memory corruption we get invalid addresses for the environmen and then fail to find the proper auxv vector: proc_getauxv(pid 21737 cmd swipl) - ps_envstr 0x697220616e737765 nenvstr 1920154122 auxv 0x69722065020d47bd proc_getauxv() then fails with EFAULT and we fail writing the auxv note in the core dump, and then stop the whole core writing process early, leaving the user with a zero sized swipl.core file. Can we do better? Does it make sense try debugging stuff w/o the auxv vector? Martin