Attempting to run the sandbox leads to a segfault, because some dynamic libraries (outside of u-boot) attempt to use malloc() to allocate memory before u-boot's gd variable is initialized.
Check for gd not being NULL in the SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN handling, so that malloc() doesn't crash when called at this point.
$ gdb -q --args ./u-boot (gdb) r Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000412b9b in malloc (bytes=bytes@entry=37) at common/dlmalloc.c:2184 2184 if (!(gd->flags & GD_FLG_RELOC)) { (gdb) p gd $1 = (gd_t *) 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000000412b9b in malloc (bytes=bytes@entry=37) at common/dlmalloc.c:2184 #1 0x00007ffff75bf8e1 in set_binding_values (domainname=0x7ffff11f4f12 "libgpg-error", dirnamep=0x7fffffffe168, codesetp=0x0) at bindtextdom.c:228 #2 0x00007ffff75bfb4c in set_binding_values (codesetp=0x0, dirnamep=0x7fffffffe168, domainname=<optimized out>) at bindtextdom.c:350 #3 __bindtextdomain (domainname=<optimized out>, dirname=0x7ffff11f4f00 "/usr/share/locale") at bindtextdom.c:348 #4 0x00007ffff11eca17 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 #5 0x00007ffff7dea9fa in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe208, env=env@entry=0x7fffffffe218) at dl-init.c:78 #6 0x00007ffff7deaae3 in call_init (env=0x7fffffffe218, argv=0x7fffffffe208, argc=1, l=<optimized out>) at dl-init.c:36 #7 _dl_init (main_map=0x7ffff7ffe1a8, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe208, env=0x7fffffffe218) at dl-init.c:126 #8 0x00007ffff7ddd1ca in _dl_start_user () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent rabin@rab.in --- common/dlmalloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/common/dlmalloc.c b/common/dlmalloc.c index f987339..d87834d 100644 --- a/common/dlmalloc.c +++ b/common/dlmalloc.c @@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ Void_t* mALLOc(bytes) size_t bytes; INTERNAL_SIZE_T nb;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN - if (!(gd->flags & GD_FLG_RELOC)) { + if (gd && !(gd->flags & GD_FLG_RELOC)) { ulong new_ptr; void *ptr;