Bug 6936

Summary: 'more /proc/misc' segfaults
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Version: 6.1CC: steve
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Description Kjartan Maraas 1999-11-11 21:07:29 UTC 
Not much more to say:

[kmaraas@km-lt kmaraas]$ rpm -qf /bin/more
util-linux-2.9w-24
[kmaraas@km-lt kmaraas]$ more /proc/misc
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[kmaraas@km-lt kmaraas]$
Comment 1 Stephen J. Friedl 2000-02-27 03:08:59 UTC 
This is not a bug in more: it's a bug in /proc/misc(!) When doing a low-level
read(2) on /proc/misc, asking for a small number of bytes (say, 2) returns
the full size of what /proc/misc has to offer even if this overflows the
caller's buffer. More allocates a two-byte buffer on the stack, and the
stack gets trashed when the read(2) call returns 26 instead of two.

Not sure if I will be able to track down the kernel problem, but at least
don't waste your time looking at more(1).