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From:
Charles Howes
Date:
January 13, 2006 02:26
Subject:
[perl #38223] ioctl: possible memory corruption error on formerly valid code
Message ID:
rt-3.0.11-38223-128048.6.80015303466533@perl.org
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This is a bug report for perl from chperl@pkts.ca,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.6.


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[Please enter your report here]
Hi...

I have a program that uses ioctl to check the status of a serial
port using ioctl.  I just upgraded to Fedora Core 4, with perl 5.8.6.
My program doesn't work anymore, giving me this error:

Possible memory corruption: ioctl overflowed 3rd argument at dotemp line
65.

I then got an example program for ioctl, from the man page perlfaq8,
under the question "How do I get the screen size?".  It also gave
the same error:

Possible memory corruption: ioctl overflowed 3rd argument at dowinsize
line 5.

#!/usr/bin/perl
require 'sys/ioctl.ph';
die "no TIOCGWINSZ " unless defined &TIOCGWINSZ;
open(TTY, "+</dev/tty")                     or die "No tty: $!";
unless (ioctl(TTY, &TIOCGWINSZ, $winsize='')) {
    die sprintf "$0: ioctl TIOCGWINSZ (%08x: $!)\n", &TIOCGWINSZ;
}
($row, $col, $xpixel, $ypixel) = unpack('S4', $winsize);
print "(row,col) = ($row,$col)";
print "  (xpixel,ypixel) = ($xpixel,$ypixel)" if $xpixel || $ypixel;
print "\n";

The example program works fully under perl 5.8.0.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high
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This perlbug was built using Perl v5.8.6 in the Red Hat build system.
It is being executed now by Perl v5.8.6 - Wed Dec 14 14:12:26 EST 2005.

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.6:

Configured by Red Hat, Inc. at Wed Dec 14 14:12:26 EST 2005.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.9-22.18.bz155725.elsmp,
archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux hs20-bc1-5.build.redhat.com 2.6.9-22.18.bz155725.elsmp
#1 smp thu nov 17 15:34:08 est 2005 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fexceptions -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Dversion=5.8.6 -Dmyhostname=localhost
-Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc.
-Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads
-Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db
-Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio
-Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly
-Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto
-Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto
-Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dinc_version_list=5.8.5
5.8.4 5.8.3'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -m32
-march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)',
gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread
-lc
    perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.3.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.6:
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.6:
    HOME=/home/croot
    LANG=POSIX
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)

PATH=/home/croot/bin:/home/croot/bin/LINUX:/home/croot/pubbin/LINUX:/usr/depot/ccache-2.2/mybin:/usr/depot/distcc/mybin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/sbin:/usr/5bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bsd:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/games:/usr/lib:/usr/libexec:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/csh
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