On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:57:51 -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 01:49:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:26:10 -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote: > > > The segfault is coming from dmidecode.c:5239 > > > > > > display = ((opt.type == NULL || opt.type[h.type]) > > > && (opt.handle == ~0U || opt.handle == h.handle) > > > && !((opt.flags & FLAG_QUIET) && (h.type == 126 > > > || h.type == 127)) > > > && !opt.string); > > > > > > (...) > > > > I can't really see how this specific line can crash, as the only > > dereferencing done in that statement, as far as I can see, is > > opt.type[h.type]. Given that h.type is an 8-bit entity and opt.type is > > For me, the opt structure was being overwritten with ascii data. > This made opt.type a non-zero but otherwise invalid pointer.
Oh right, that explains it, thanks. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
