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J. Doe
J. Doe

Reputation: 3

mprotect() Invalid argument in C

I want to allocate 4096 Bytes with posix_memalign in the array "page", and then protect it with PROT_NONE via mprotect(). The allocation seems to work, but protect() returns 1 instead of 0. The given error code is "Invalid argument".

I think it's only a small mistake, I am not able to detect. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

uint8_t *page;
size_t page_size = 4096;
size_t alignment = 8;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if (posix_memalign((void **) &page, alignment, page_size) != 0) perror("Allocation failed!");
    if (mprotect(page, page_size, PROT_NONE) != 0) perror("mprotect() failed!");
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 798

Answers (1)

Sir Jo Black
Sir Jo Black

Reputation: 2096

Try the way in the code below ... and read better the man-pages:

man -S3 posix_memalign

man -S2 mprotect

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <unistd.h>

uint8_t *page=NULL;
size_t page_size;
size_t alignment = 8;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    int blen;

    // page_size=getpagesize();
    page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);

    blen=page_size * 2;

    if (posix_memalign((void **) &page, page_size, blen) != 0)
        perror("Allocation failed!");

    if (mprotect(page, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) != 0)
        perror("mprotect() failed!");
}

Upvotes: 0

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