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Re: Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from within

From none <ytrezq@sdf-eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from within
Date 2017-03-27 21:00 +0200
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Le 2017-03-27 17:30, Richard Weinberger a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:45 PM, none <ytrezq@sdf-eu.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> There’s three way to perform an invalid memory access :
>> 
>> The attempt to execute/jump at an invalid address.
>> The attempt to read at an invalid address.
>> The attempt to write at an invalid address.
>> 
>> Determining the execute case with rt_sigaction is easy : the last 
>> value of
>> eip match the value of the address which caused the segfault.
>> 
>> But how to know if the SIGSEGV occurred by a read or by a write 
>> attempt ? In
>> the same time shouldn’t that information belong in the mmu ?
> 
> Did you look at the machine specific context of SIGSEGV?
> It will give you access to the error code and the trap number.

Sorry but so, in the case of x86_64, which is the struct member I need 
to look at ?

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Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from within none <ytrezq@sdf-eu.org> - 2017-03-27 17:00 +0200
  Re: Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from within Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 17:40 +0200
    Re: Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from  within none <ytrezq@sdf-eu.org> - 2017-03-27 21:00 +0200
      Re: Getting the way a SIGSEGV append when catching a SIGSEGV from  within Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-03-27 21:30 +0200

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