On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:48:21AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> So 'movb $0x0,0xe(%rax,%rdx,1)' should be storing 0 into the byte
> location:
>
> %rax + 0xe + (%rdx * 1) ==
> 0x40fc+ 0xe + 0xffff8808b5500000 ==
> 0xffff8808b5540fce.
>
> That address is readable in the crash dump:
>
> crash> x/8b 0x0000000000040fc0+0xe+0xffff8808b5500000
> 0xffff8808b5540fce: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00
>
> And why does the page fault show 0x40fc0 as the faulting address? It
> should be 0xffff8808b5540fce and it shouldn't have caused a page fault.
>
> What am I missing?
Random guess: Is that page marked read-only perhaps ?
Dave
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