Re: Additional info on modpost segfault

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

Alan <alan@clueserver.org> writes:

> program: /home/alan/GitTrees/linux-2.6-mid-ref/scripts/mod/modpost -o
> Module.symvers -S vmlinux.o
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

It just hit me.
It's the offset calculation in reloc_location() which overflows:
        return (void *)elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset +
               (r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr);

E.g. for the first rodata r entry:
r->r_offset < sechdrs[section].sh_addr
and the expression in the parenthesis produces 0xFFFFFFE0 or something
equally wise.

Does the attached patch fix it?

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>

--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1317,8 +1317,8 @@ static unsigned int *reloc_location(struct elf_info *elf,
 	Elf_Shdr *sechdrs = elf->sechdrs;
 	int section = sechdr->sh_info;
 
 	return (void *)elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset +
-		(r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr);
+		r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr;
 }
 
 static int addend_386_rel(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Shdr *sechdr, Elf_Rela *r)