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Re: [RFC] Detect loops in the solib chain
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:14:59PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> For my own education: it looks to me that this customer won the lottery
> two times here (one for pointing to a link map fake entry, and the other
> for it to be circular). How often can this happen in practice?
Beats me, but my guess is more often than you think - the value you
need for it to be circular is readily available. For instance
something that shifts the pointer by a word will make us load l_prev
when we wanted l_next.
They definitely did lose the lottery twice though :-)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery