Re: 0xffffe002 in ??

From: KV Pavuram
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 10:58:34 EST


Hi,

What about the webpage

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=104763

I am a kernel newbie, so I couldnt catch what is being
explained in the page though. But i do have
pthread_cond_wait in my code that are called too
often.

Regards,
Pav.

--- "Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, KV Pavuram wrote:
>
> > I am running a multithreaded application on Linux
> 2.4
> > kernel (RedHat Linux 9).
> >
> > At some point the program receives a seg. fault
> and if
> > i check info threads, using gdb for debug, almost
> all
> > the threads are at "0xffffe002 in ??"
> >
>
> If a number of threads arrive at the same bad
> address you
> should look for some common code that calls through
> a function pointer. If you don't have any calls
> through
> pointers, then you may have something corrupting the
> stack
> so that the return address of a called function gets
> corrupted. For instance, if the value 0x02e0 was
> written
> beyond array limits in local (stack) data, then when
> that
> function returned it could actually end up
> 'returning'
> to the bad address you discovered.
>
> Although the kernel provided the seg-fault
> mechanism, this
> is not a kernel problem. This is a user-code
> problem.
>
> > When I switch to each of these tasks, and try x/i
> for
> > 0xffffe002, cannot access address.
> >
> > What could be the problem?
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pav.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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> (5537.79 BogoMips).
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>







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