On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:27:35PM +0100, Abel Bernabeu wrote: > I've finally found a solution for the crash in load_binary_elf I > reported last week: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/30/171 > > The attached patch solves my problem, but please test it yourself... > > set_brk(start, end) allocs just page aligned regions (by "colapsing" > both extremes to the start of the page in which they lay)... That > means than even if both pointers are not equal there are still some > chances that set_brk has allocated no space at all because > ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_bss) != ELF_PAGEALIGN(elf_brk).
What architecture was this? Most architectures align .bss properly but it seems arm does not and I guess this is needed. As .bss was empty? in your case you did not trigger any alignmnet by linker due to largest member in section => boom. I do think your patch paper over the real bug. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/