Re: [dev] Torified surf is unstable

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:53:23 +0100

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:41:51PM +0200, GhostAV wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:28:36AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Gabriel Pérez-Cerezo wrote:
> > > At Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:15:59 +0100,
> > > Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > > > > The command prints
> > > > > [Aug 18 11:55:55] WARNING torsocks[14305]: [syscall] Unsupported
> > > > > syscall number 240. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:165)
> > > > > to STDOUT.
> > > >
> > > > What syscall is it?
> > > I don't know. I tried man syscall and man syscalls but none of them
> > > contain a list of syscalls by number. How do I look it up?
> >
> > Numbers are different per architecture. For i686 I guess the right
> > place to look is here[0].
> >
> > Futexes are not directly used by surf but indirectly by libc. I don't
> > think there is much we can do here, this seems like an issue on the torsocks
> > side. By denying the system call, perhaps something is left uninitialized
> > and then crashes.
> >
> > [0] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> Best place to look for the according syscall for your architecture and
> current version is in /usr/include/asm/unistd{,_32,_64}.h depending
> wether you have an 32 or 64 bit system.

Yes those are autogenerated from the above .tbl I believe.
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