Incorrect preadv/pwritev argument parsing on ARM EABI

Dima Kogan lists at dima.secretsauce.net
Wed Apr 16 04:18:50 UTC 2014


Dima Kogan <lists at dima.secretsauce.net> writes:

> Does anybody know what's going on? I can imagine anything from the
> kernel being inconsistent with itself to glibc producing an incorrect
> kernel interface.

So I just checked to see what data the kernel returns in response to the
pread() and preadv() calls in the example. The kernel sees the correct
addresses in both of those calls, so libc is doing the right thing, and
this is an strace bug/kernel weirdness.

dima




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