[RFC BUG?] dereference PAGE_OFFSET address (rc7-mm2)

["Dan Kruchinin" <dubalom@gmail.com>]

Hi.

I don't know why, but when I'm dereferencing PAGE_OFFSET(0xC0000000 on
x86) address from user space on rc7-mm2 I don't receive SIGSEGV signal
and there is no any core dump.
btw: on poor rc-7 all is ok.

test_code:
---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#define PAGE_OFFSET 0xC0000000

static void _error(const char *msg)
{
  int errcode = errno;

  fprintf(stderr, "ERROR:\n--> %s [%s]\n", msg, strerror(errcode));
  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

int main(void)
{
  int pid;
  struct rlimit rl;
  int status;

  printf("Trying to cause ELF core dump...\n");

  rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = 0x10000000;

  if(setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl) < 0)
	_error("setrlim error!");
  if((pid = fork()) < 0)
	_error("fork error!");
  else if(pid == 0) {
	*((long*) PAGE_OFFSET ) = 0; /* trying to dereference kernel start address */
	_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
  }

  if(waitpid(pid, &status, 0) < 0)
	_error("waitpid error!");
  if(WCOREDUMP(status))
	printf("All is ok. We receive SIGSEGV and core dump has occured.\n");
  else
	printf("All is bad. We don't receive SIGSEGV and core dump hasn't
occured. (WHY?!)\n"); /* here I just get SIGCHLD, this means that
child process have made it's work success... */

  exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
---

[asgard@midgard]$ uname -a
Linux midgard 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 #5 SMP Wed May 2 04:15:09 MSD 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[asgard@midgard]$ ./a.out
Trying to cause ELF core dump...
All is bad. We don't receive SIGSEGV and core dump hasn't occured. (WHY?!)

---

[asgard@midgard]$ uname -a
Linux midgard 2.6.21-rc7 #5 SMP Wed May 2 02:11:50 MSD 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[asgard@midgard]$ ./a.out
Trying to cause ELF core dump...
All is ok. We receive SIGSEGV and core dump has occured.

With best regards.
Dan Kruchinin.