Hello all,

First of all, I wish a Happy New Year (with less crash, but still enhanced tools...)

Thanks for the links, they were very useful.
I dig further in the way of analyzing the User Space, but it seems that I'm linked to a dead-end way.
Below is a snapshot of kernel / userland stack dump.

What I've done :
- Crash is triggered by a page fault inside a kernel module (write 0 in 0xFFFFFFFF, classic).
- Using gcore to create the 'core.<pid>.bash (which is the user task running at time of crash).
- Evaluating an EBP (between { }) chaining value (hypothesis), EIP value (between [ ]) is then just pushed beside

The purpose of this study is to find a method to analyze futur crashes from kernel space down to user space applications.

Do you have an idea about the cause of this non-dumping of the memory in user-space ?
Should I use other extension as 'gcore' ?

Thank in advance.
Best regards,
Patrick Agrain


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===============================================================================
--------------------- Go down into User Space Territory -----------------------

Last pt_regs of kernel stack is:
                                                                   | pt_regs
                    00000001 094a5408 00000003   ..~......TJ.....  |    bx cx dx
c2699fc0:  00000003 094a5408 bfd1b704 00000004   .....TJ.........  | si di bp ax
c2699fd0:  0000007b ffff007b c07e0000 00000033   {...{.....~.3...  | ds es fs gs
c2699fe0:  00000004 b776a416 00000073 00000246   ......v.s...F...  | orig_eax ip cs flags
c2699ff0:  bfd1b6d8 0000007b                                       | sp ss
              v              cccccccc cccccccc   ....{...........  | padding
              |
              |----------------------------------------------------------------|
                                                                               |
(gdb) x/32xw 0xbfd1b680                                                        |
0xbfd1b680:     0xbfd1b6d0      0x0000000f      0x094b4568      0x080c90b9     |
0xbfd1b690:     0x094b4568      0x080cd160      0x00001936      0x00000001     |
0xbfd1b6a0:     0x094ab9c8      0x00000000      0x094b4b48      0xbfd1b7c8     |
0xbfd1b6b0:     0x080ce9e8      0x094b4b48      0x094b4b48      0xbfd1b728     |
0xbfd1b6c0:     0x094aed28      0x00000020      0x00000000      0x00000070     |
0xbfd1b6d0:     0x094b4588      0x080cc080                                     |
                                                0xb7698b43                  <--|
                                                                0xb7757ff4
0xbfd1b6e0:     0xb76343b4      0x00000001      0x094a5408      0x00000003
0xbfd1b6f0:     0xb77584e0      0x080cc080      0xbfd1b728      0xb77584e0

                                     |------------------------------------------ Hypothesis : this is an EBP value...
                                     v
0xbfd1b700:     0x00000003     {0xbfd1b72c}    [0xb7635c90]     0xb77584e0
0xbfd1b710:     0x094a5408      0x00000003      0x094b4b48      0xbfd1b7c8
0xbfd1b720:     0xb7757ff4      0xb77584e0      0x0000000a     {0xbfd1b750}
0xbfd1b730:    [0xb7634e80]     0xb77584e0      0x094a5408      0x00000003
0xbfd1b740:     0x0000000a      0xb7757ff4      0xb77584e0      0x0000000a
0xbfd1b750:    {0xbfd1b768}    [0xb7637d2a]     0xb77584e0      0x0000000a
0xbfd1b760:     0xb7757ff4      0xb77584e0     {0xbfd1b788}    [0xb76312b5] >-|
0xbfd1b770:     0xb77584e0      0x0000000a      0xb75c9940      0x094a3e48    |
0xbfd1b780:     0x00000001      0x00000000      0x00000000      0x0809b64b    |
                                                                              |
Disassemble Try: EIP@0xb76312b5 <---------------------------------------------|
(gdb) disassemble 0xb7631200, 0xb7631300
Dump of assembler code from 0xb7631200 to 0xb7631300:
   0xb7631200:  Cannot access memory at address 0xb7631200
(gdb)
----------


Le 17/12/2013 19:12, Buland Kumar Singh a écrit :
Hi Patrick,

The following links may also be helpful to understand gdb and
it's usage for application core analysis. 

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~sugih/pointers/gdb_core.html
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/

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On 17 December 2013 21:36, Patrick Agrain <patrick.agrain@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
Hello all,

Now that we have dumped the kernel stack, I'm intesresting in the user process from which we came just before the 'panic'.
Googling around, I found mention of the 'gcore' extension.

I compiled version 1.22 and installed it.
Using it on crash 6.1.0-1.el6, I get a file core.845.bash on process 'bash' (in which I trigger a kernel panic) :

crash> gcore -v 1 845
gcore: Opening file core.845.bash ...
gcore: done.
gcore: Writing ELF header ...
gcore:  done.
gcore: Retrieving and writing note information ...
gcore: done.
gcore: Writing PT_NOTE program header ...
gcore: done.
gcore: Writing PT_LOAD program headers ...
gcore: done.
gcore: Writing PT_LOAD segment ...
gcore: PT_LOAD[0]: 8048000 - 8048000
gcore: PT_LOAD[1]: 80e2000 - 80e9000
gcore: PT_LOAD[2]: 80e9000 - 80ed000
gcore: PT_LOAD[3]: 94a2000 - 94d1000
gcore: PT_LOAD[4]: b7374000 - b7374000
gcore: PT_LOAD[5]: b7375000 - b7376000
gcore: PT_LOAD[6]: b7376000 - b7377000
gcore: PT_LOAD[7]: b7377000 - b7377000
gcore: PT_LOAD[8]: b737e000 - b737e000
gcore: PT_LOAD[9]: b737f000 - b737f000
gcore: PT_LOAD[10]: b73bb000 - b73bb000
gcore: PT_LOAD[11]: b75bb000 - b75bb000
gcore: PT_LOAD[12]: b75c7000 - b75c8000
gcore: PT_LOAD[13]: b75c8000 - b75c9000
gcore: PT_LOAD[14]: b75c9000 - b75ca000
gcore: PT_LOAD[15]: b75ca000 - b75ca000
gcore: PT_LOAD[16]: b7756000 - b7758000
gcore: PT_LOAD[17]: b7758000 - b7759000
gcore: PT_LOAD[18]: b7759000 - b775c000
gcore: PT_LOAD[19]: b775c000 - b775c000
gcore: PT_LOAD[20]: b775f000 - b7760000
gcore: PT_LOAD[21]: b7760000 - b7761000
gcore: PT_LOAD[22]: b7761000 - b7761000
gcore: PT_LOAD[23]: b7764000 - b7765000
gcore: PT_LOAD[24]: b7769000 - b776a000
gcore: PT_LOAD[25]: b776a000 - b776b000
gcore: PT_LOAD[26]: b776b000 - b776b000
gcore: PT_LOAD[27]: b7789000 - b778a000
gcore: PT_LOAD[28]: b778a000 - b778b000
gcore: PT_LOAD[29]: bfd07000 - bfd1d000
gcore: done.
Saved core.845.bash
crash>

So far, so good... But

Question: Are there anywhere some hints about how to use this core.<pid> file ?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Patrick Agrain

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