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Message-ID: <20171021042005.GV1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:20:05 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Minqiang Chen <ptpt52@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mman: fix mmap pass wrong offset to kernel
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 05:06:29PM +0800, Minqiang Chen wrote:
> I don’t know why, but this is how I fix it.
> on arm_cortex-a15 it is 32bit arch
off_t is always 64-bit regardless of whether it's a 32-bit arch. This
is definitely a bug in the calling program, not musl.
> > 在 2017年10月17日，00:27，Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> 写道：
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 01:03:18PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> >> * Minqiang Chen <ptpt52@...il.com> [2017-10-16 09:09:32 +0800]:
> >>>
> >>> musl: fix mmap pass wrong offset to kernel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> for example off_t x=0x8d9eb000, the x/4096 result is 0xfff8d9eb,
> >>> not 0x8d9eb as expecting
> >>>
> >>
> >> off_t is 64bit, not 32bit, so x/4096 should not signextend.
> >> you need to investigate this problem more.
> >
> > I suspect the calling code stored the offset 0x8d9eb000 in a signed
> > 32-bit variable (converting it to a negative value) and then passed
> > the resulting negative value to mmap.
> >
> > Rich
>
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