Created attachment 180017 [details] files that cause the problem On more recent CURRENT (as far as I can tell at least this year) bsdiff stops with SIGBUS when comparing the attached files by running > bsdiff d76057a1a25b15b72ca9961d630b295316894d4ac679e54cd471b85eadf694ea acpi_hp.ko.debug outfile running > bsdiff acpi_hp.ko.debug d76057a1a25b15b72ca9961d630b295316894d4ac679e54cd471b85eadf694ea outbl works fine. The problem can be reproduced with r313726 and r313041 and can't be reproduced on freefall (r309137). idwer on #bsdcode was able to reproduce the problem and provided a truss log: http://dpaste.com/2JB0GG2
The issue is caused when trying to read an invalid pointer in matchlen() I am still tracking down why the 'oldsize' is -6510615555427011531
Just tested it on 11.1 Release - same problem - 11.0 works fine.
^Triage: close as OBE. I'm sorry that this PR never got looked at, but by now, 11.X is long out of support.