[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash version 7.2.2 is available

[Dave Anderson]

Hi Alex,

Although I still don't understand why it's only reproducible when crash
is built with certain compilers, I guess it has something to do with how
the local variables are laid out on the function's stack?

Thanks for catching this -- I'll release a 7.2.3 version with the fix
later today.

Dave
  


----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Alex,
> > 
> > Just for a sanity check, can you try rebuilding without this 7.2.2 patch:
> > 
> >   commit 11eceac4ef54e9bf7d64ce3c96a7454aeb126fd8
> >   Author: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Fri Apr 20 14:37:52 2018 -0400
> > 
> >     Fixes to address several gcc-8.0.1 compiler warnings that are generated
> >     when building with "make warn".  The warnings are all false alarm
> >     messages of type [-Wformat-overflow=], [-Wformat-truncation=] and
> >     [-Wstringop-truncation]; the affected files are extensions.c, task.c,
> >     kernel.c, memory.c, remote.c, symbols.c, filesys.c and xen_hyper.c.
> >     (anderson at redhat.com)
> > 
> > It does modify some buffer sizes used by the mount command.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   Dave
> 
> It's this, where the read_string() call into buf4 should be shortened to (BUFSIZE/2)-1:
>  
> --- a/filesys.c
> +++ b/filesys.c
> @@ -1366,10 +1366,10 @@ show_mounts(ulong one_vfsmount, int flags, struct
> task_context *namespace_contex
>         long s_dirty;
>         ulong devp, dirp, sbp, dirty, type, name;
>         struct list_data list_data, *ld;
> -       char buf1[BUFSIZE];
> +       char buf1[BUFSIZE*2];
>         char buf2[BUFSIZE];
>         char buf3[BUFSIZE];
> -       char buf4[BUFSIZE];
> +       char buf4[BUFSIZE/2];
>         ulong *dentry_list, *dp, *mntlist;
>         ulong *vfsmnt;
>         char *vfsmount_buf, *super_block_buf, *mount_buf;
> @@ -1494,8 +1494,8 @@ show_mounts(ulong one_vfsmount, int flags, struct
> task_context *namespace_contex
>                          KVADDR, &name, sizeof(void *),
>                          "file_system_type name", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
> 
> -                if (read_string(name, buf1, BUFSIZE-1))
> -                       sprintf(buf3, "%-6s ", buf1);
> +                if (read_string(name, buf4, BUFSIZE-1))
> +                       sprintf(buf3, "%-6s ", buf4);
>                  else
>                         sprintf(buf3, "unknown ");
> 
> I can reproduce it on a RHEL6 host, but not with new gcc versions.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Well, stepping in GDB line-by-line I can see that we segfault at #1594 in
> > > filesys.c
> > > 
> > > 1588 if (!one_vfsmount)
> > > (gdb)
> > > 1589 FREEBUF(mntlist);
> > > (gdb)
> > > 1590 if (VALID_STRUCT(mount))
> > > (gdb)
> > > 1593 FREEBUF(vfsmount_buf);
> > > (gdb)
> > > 1594 FREEBUF(super_block_buf);
> > > (gdb)
> > > 1595 }
> > > (gdb)
> > > 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > > 
> > > That is, there is definitely memory corruption somewhere and 'mount' is
> > > most
> > > probably just a victim.
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > > 
> > > On 2018-05-17 09:36 AM, Alex Sidorenko wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > crash> mount
> > > VFSMOUNT SUPERBLK TYPE DEVNAME DIRNAME
> > > ffff88101c916080 ffff88081c837400 rootfs rootfs /
> > > 
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > > (gdb) bt
> > > Python Exception <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> No module named
> > > gdb.frames:
> > > #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > > #1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > > --
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