Debugging an SEH Crash · BitFunnel

Debugging an SEH Crash

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Here’s a video showing how I debugged a read access violation that was caused by an earlier buffer overflow. This sort of problem can sometimes be hard to track down, but in this case, a data breakpoint made my job easier.

The video discusses the BlockAllocator, Slice buffers and the Row Tables they contain. If you’d like to try diagnosing the bug yourself, just checkout the SEHBug branch of the BitFunnel repository.

Michael Hopcroft
A 19 year veteran at Microsoft, Mike has worked on Office, Windows and Visual Studio. He has spent the past 6 years developing cloud scale infrastructure for the Bing search engine. He is a founding member of BitFunnel.