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authorDave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>2014-11-15 09:57:02 +1100
committerDave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>2014-11-15 09:57:02 +1100
commit56716547b8e246c1454a169c12ace1bbaf369f6a (patch)
tree789a654f98171d6dcf03f2d0e4ab8553f5e96217 /src
parent3d1f54193ee76537569dd2ef1222391ac4a643a3 (diff)
downloadgo-56716547b8e246c1454a169c12ace1bbaf369f6a.tar.gz
[dev.cc] runtime: fix bus error accessing auxv random data on arm5
It's rather unsporting of the kernel to give us a pointer to unaligned memory. This fixes one crash, the next crash occurs in the soft float emulation. LGTM=minux, rsc, austin R=minux, rsc, austin CC=golang-codereviews https://codereview.appspot.com/177730043
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/os_linux_arm.go7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/runtime/os_linux_arm.go b/src/runtime/os_linux_arm.go
index 9b0ade614..d5b37d6ab 100644
--- a/src/runtime/os_linux_arm.go
+++ b/src/runtime/os_linux_arm.go
@@ -50,9 +50,12 @@ func setup_auxv(argc int32, argv **byte) {
for i := 0; auxv[i] != _AT_NULL; i += 2 {
switch auxv[i] {
- case _AT_RANDOM: // kernel provided 16-byte worth of random data
+ case _AT_RANDOM: // kernel provides a pointer to 16-bytes worth of random data
if auxv[i+1] != 0 {
- randomNumber = *(*uint32)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(auxv[i+1])))
+ // the pointer provided may not be word alined, so we must to treat it
+ // as a byte array.
+ rnd := (*[16]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(auxv[i+1])))
+ randomNumber = uint32(rnd[0]) | uint32(rnd[1])<<8 | uint32(rnd[2])<<16 | uint32(rnd[3])<<24
}
case _AT_PLATFORM: // v5l, v6l, v7l