Issue 10959: mmap crash - Python tracker (original) (raw)
The fix for commited in r88022 introduces this line:
map_size = st.st_size - offset;
If offset > st.st_size, map_size is negative. This should cause the mmap system call to return -1 and set errno.
However, given a certain size of offset, since map_size is unsigned it will give a very large map_size and access the resultant mmap object results in a bus error crash. It also gives bogus len(mmap) values.
Eg (crashes on a 32bit system): import os, mmap
with open("/tmp/rnd", "wb") as f: f.write(b"X" * 115699)
with open("/tmp/rnd", "w+b") as f: with mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0, offset=2147479552) as m: print(len(m)) for i in m: print(m[i])
Attached is a patch which should fix this issue by raising a value error if offset > st.st_size.