reassign 611195 libc6
tags 611195 + patch
thanks

> so there you have it in a nutshell. probably the quickest 'fix' is to
> at least add a check for mprotect's return value

I wrote a patch that should fix the segfault. I couldn't test it because
I don't have an appropriate environment to rebuild eglibc and test the
issue.


--- elf/dl-load.c       2011-01-26 22:02:02.000000000 +0100
+++ elf/dl-load.c       2011-01-26 22:30:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -1398,7 +1398,11 @@
          if (__builtin_expect (p + s <= relro_end, 1))
            {
              /* The variable lies in the region protected by RELRO.  */
-             __mprotect ((void *) p, s, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
+             if (__mprotect ((void *) p, s, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) < 0)
+               {
+                 errstring = N_("cannot change memory protections");
+                 goto call_lose_errno;
+               }
              __stack_prot |= PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC;
              __mprotect ((void *) p, s, PROT_READ);
            }


Regards,

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."



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