Description of problem: Hivex cannot read any of the hives from a fresh ReactOS install. In each case, trying to list the children of the root nodes returns EFAULT, indicating that it is trying to follow a pointer that points outside the registry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hivex-1.2.7-3.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ReactOS. 2. Download contents of /reactos/system32/config 3. Try to use (eg.) hivexregedit to list the contents. Actual results: $ hivexsh SOFTWARE Welcome to hivexsh, the hivex interactive shell for examining Windows Registry binary hive files. Type: 'help' for help summary 'quit' to quit the shell SOFTWARE\> help Navigate through the hive's keys using the 'cd' command, as if it contained a filesystem, and use 'ls' to list the subkeys of the current key. Full documentation is in the hivexsh(1) manual page. SOFTWARE\> ls ls: Bad address Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 501981 [details] Debug output from this command: echo ls | hivexsh -d SOFTWARE
I raised this issue on the ReactOS developers mailing list[1] and also looked into the code. It does appear to be a bug in ReactOS not setting that field. However the fix is not very trivial. Any fix would start with this patch: Index: hivedata.h =================================================================== --- hivedata.h (revision 52019) +++ hivedata.h (working copy) @@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ If the hive is volatile, this is the actual pointer to the CM_KEY_NODE */ HCELL_INDEX RootCell; - /* Size of each hive block ? */ + /* Length of meaningful data in the file, excluding base block. + The file itself can be longer than this, but Windows will ignore + anything after. */ ULONG Length; /* (1?) */ [1] http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2011-May/thread.html
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I've tried it with ReactOS 0.4 official qemu image and it seems to be fixed.
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