Make a copy of the vdso bytes to make valgrind a little quieter.

2007-03-02  Soren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>

	* process.c (process_get_vdso_bytes): Make a copy of the vdso
	bytes to make valgrind a little quieter.

	* binparser.c: Note to self: Save the file, *then* commit.
	

svn path=/trunk/; revision=357

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-03-02  Soren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
+
+	* process.c (process_get_vdso_bytes): Make a copy of the vdso
+	bytes to make valgrind a little quieter.
+
+	* binparser.c: Note to self: Save the file, *then* commit.
+	
 2007-03-02  Soren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
 
 	Fix two leaks, both pointed out by Kjartan Maraas

binparser.c

@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ bin_parser_free (BinParser *parser)
 	g_free (record);
     }
 
+    g_list_free (parser->records);
+    
     g_free (parser);
 }
 

binparser.h

@@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ typedef enum
 struct BinField {
     const char		name[BIN_MAX_NAME];
     char		type;
-    char		n_bytes;	/* number of bytes if type
+    char		n_bytes;	/* number of bytes in the type */
-					 * is UNINTERPRETED */
 };
 
 BinParser *   bin_parser_new        (const guchar *data,

process.c

@@ -175,8 +175,19 @@ process_get_vdso_bytes (gsize *length)
 
 	    if (strcmp (map->filename, "[vdso]") == 0)
 	    {
-		bytes = (guint8 *)map->start;
 		n_bytes = map->end - map->start;
+
+		/* Dup the memory here so that valgrind will only
+		 * report one 1 byte invalid read instead of
+		 * a ton when the elf parser scans the vdso
+		 *
+		 * The reason we get a spurious invalid read from
+		 * valgrind is that we are getting the address directly
+		 * from /proc/maps, and valgrind knows that its mmap()
+		 * wrapper never returned that address. But since it
+		 * is a legal mapping, it is legal to read it.
+		 */
+		bytes = g_memdup ((guint8 *)map->start, n_bytes);
 	    }
 	}