ragator segfaults

[Peter Van Epp]

	What ragator policy are your running? I can try it here on FreeBSD
(and fire up my test machine and see which OpenBSD I'm running, I expect back
about 3.4 I don't think I've upgraded in a while) and see what it does.

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:15:57PM +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:
> hmmm... .debug does not seem to work any more.  I nobbled the make files
> in common and client to compile with symbols.
> 
> 
> -bash-3.00$ gdb bin/ragator ragator.core
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.6"...
> Core was generated by `ragator'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1
> Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so
> #0  0x1c02c973 in ArgusCalloc (nitems=1, size=124)
> at ./argus_filter.c:5210
> 5210          *retn = 0x45672381;
> (gdb) l
> 5205
> 5206       if (size) {
> 5207          ArgusCallocTotal++;
> 5208          retn = (unsigned int *) calloc (1, bytes + 4);
> 5209
> 5210          *retn = 0x45672381;
> 5211          retn++;
> 5212       }
> 5213
> 5214    #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> (gdb) p retn
> $1 = (unsigned int *) 0x0
> 
> So yes, it seems to be  running out of memory get a lousy 4 byte int!
> and the calloc return is not checked.
> 
> This is weird since the box has 300MB of free memory and the file I am
> processing is about 15 MB.
> 
> Is it possible that the memory is being allocated out of some limited
> kernel pool?
> 
> OS is OBSD 3.6
> 
> One more thing, it does work with file of under 10MB.
> 
> Russell.