ps -axl during textdumps occasionally segfaults with a HUGE ps.core

[Bruce Cran]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:20:43 +0100
Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> I managed to get a full backtrace and can at least see what's causing
> the crash: it seems it's stepping past the nlist array and calls
> vsnprintf with a bad argument. kvm_nlist returns -1 to report that the
> symbol table couldn't be read, but the code assumes it has returned a
> positive number to indicate that there's an invalid entry, so it
> starts searching for that entry where n_type is 0.

I've submitted a bug report for this - it's
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137890

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Bruce Cran