<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, rohan puri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohan.puri15@gmail.com">rohan.puri15@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Vaibhav Jain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vjoss197@gmail.com" target="_blank">vjoss197@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com" target="_blank">mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi...<br>
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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 02:34, Vaibhav Jain <<a href="mailto:vjoss197@gmail.com" target="_blank">vjoss197@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I am trying to run a program that scans memory from a given physical address<br>
> using /dev/mem.<br>
> It uses mmap to map physical address from /dev/mem. So to start with I used<br>
> /proc/iomem to look up the<br>
> physical memory mapping and found the address 00010000 to be the starting<br>
> address for System ram. But whenever I<br>
> provide this address to the program it throws an error of "Operation not<br>
> permitted".<br>
<br>
</div>Probably this could also due to mmap NULL dereferencing protection (at<br>
least that's how I name it :) )<br>
<br>
By default, the lowest 65536 byte (10000 in hex) is protected from<br>
mapping etc. It practically render such null dererefencing useless.<br>
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regards,<br>
<br>
Mulyadi Santosa<br>
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant<br>
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</font></blockquote></div></div><div><br>Hi,</div><div> </div><div>I tried the same with other addresses (greater than 0x10000 ) also but it is throwing the same error.</div><div>Is there a way to get over this ?</div><div>
</div>
<div>Thanks</div><div>Vaibhav Jain</div><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div> </div>
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<br></blockquote></div>Hi Vaibhav,<br><br>This is how it can be done. Refer link <a href="http://www.theknotter.net/system-memory-dumps-on-linux/" target="_blank">http://www.theknotter.net/system-memory-dumps-on-linux/</a><br>
<br>I have attached the modified code which disables the socket creation part and dumps the output in a file.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">Rohan Puri<br>
</font></blockquote></div><div><br> </div><div>Thanks Rohan for the code but I already have a code that reads memory using /dev/mem and mmap.</div><div>Only difference is I have to manually change the starting address in program. The problem is whenver I give </div>
<div>any System RAM address the mmap call fails with 'Operation not permitted'. I googled a little and found that normally</div><div>this operation is not allowed and the kernel has to be compiled with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM disabled to read any memory </div>
<div>location in this way. I also found out about the boot option 'strict-devmem =0'. I tried both these options but none of them seems to working.</div><div>So I am trying to figure out if there is some other setting that I need to change.</div>
<div>I am doing this on Fedora 15 - 2.6.38 kernel.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks</div><div>Vaibhav Jain<br></div><div> </div>