On Sep 13 2016, Eugene Syromyatnikov 
<evgsyr-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> glibc before 2.23 (glibc-2.22-122-gbe48165? to be more precise) tried to 
> access
> data pointed by third argument of msgctl call on 64-bit PowerPC which led to
> segmentataion fault (instead of EFAULT from kernel).

Which is a perfectly valid thing to do, as passing an invalid pointer to
msgctl (the libc function) invokes undefined behaviour.  If you want to
test the kernel behaviour you need to talk to the kernel directly.

Andreas.

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