kernel patch needed for wine?

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:47 -0700
Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Garrett Cooper
> > <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Sam Fourman Jr.
> >> <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Which patch ? icebp generates the SIGTRAP on latest 8-stable,
> >>>> verified by the following trivival assembler program:
> >>>>        .text
> >>>>        .globl  main
> >>>> main:
> >>>>        .byte   0xf1
> >>>>        xorl    %edi,%edi
> >>>>        call    exit
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
> > Here is the C program that the linux people used as a test case.
> >
> > ***************************************************************
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <signal.h>
> >
> >
> >
> > void trap_handler(int sig)
> > {
> >        printf("trapped\n");
> > }
> >
> >
> > /*
> >  * icebp
> >  * ret
> >  */
> > char icebp_func[] = "\xf1\xc3";
> > typedef void (*icebp_call)(void);
> >
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >        icebp_call func = (icebp_call)icebp_func;
> >
> >        signal(SIGTRAP, trap_handler);
> >
> >        func();
> >
> >        return 0;
> > }
> >
> > ***************************************************************
> >
> > My question is why doe the above code not print trapped on amd64?
> >
> > FreeBSD 8.1 i386 this code prints "Trapped" as intended
> > FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 this code prints "Segmentation fault: 11"
> > FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 chrooted to 32bit prints "Segmentation fault"
> >
> > I did verify that from Linux amd64 this works and prints "Trapped"
> > uname -a
> > Linux workstation 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11
> > 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Hmmm... I've seen similar whackiness with Linux and signals, but
> that's a different thing entirely (it was rt signals vs non-rt
> signals).
> 
> Here's a modified version of the testcase (wanted to make sure that
> things were sane):
> 
> $ cat test_sigtrap.c
> #include <err.h>
> #include <signal.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int trapped = 0;
> 
> void trap_handler(int sig)
> {
> 	trapped = 1;
> }
> 
> 
> /*
>  * icebp
>  * ret
>  */
> char icebp_func[] = "\xf1\xc3";
> typedef void (*icebp_call)(void);
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> 	icebp_call func = (icebp_call)icebp_func;
> 
> 	if (signal(SIGTRAP, trap_handler) == SIG_ERR)
> 		err(1, "signal");
> 
> 	func();
> 
> 	if (trapped)
> 		printf("Admiral Ackbar: it's a trap!\n");
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> Ran it and it segfaulted on CURRENT:
> 

Now make icebp_func const and observe the program start working. The
test case is broken as written, because icebp_func array is writable,
so in ends up in a non-const part of .bss, which is not marked as
executable and rightfully causes SIGSEGV when jumped to. 

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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