Bug 1129572

Summary: [abrt] strace: init(): strace killed by SIGSEGV
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Michal Toman <mtoman>
Component: straceAssignee: Jeff Law <law>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michael Petlan <mpetlan>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: dhorak, dvlasenk, extras-qa, ldv, lmiksik, mcermak, mnewsome, mpetlan, ohudlick, perobins, rvokal, schwab
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: ppc64le   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:552ea56d72903168d4414960fd5a0336474e6e12
Fixed In Version: strace-4.8-10.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1129569 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-19 09:08:52 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1129569    
Bug Blocks: 1109875    
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Description Flags
strace-ptrace-prototype.patch none

Description Michal Toman 2014-08-13 08:48:50 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1129569 +++

Description of problem:
Getting a segmentation fault when trying to attach to a process on ppc64le. Only happens when attaching, running '$ strace cmd' works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component:
strace-4.8-5.fc21

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.3
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        strace -p 3250
crash_function: init
executable:     /usr/bin/strace
kernel:         3.14.0-1.fc21.ppc64le
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            1002

Truncated backtrace:
Thread no. 1 (3 frames)
 #0 newoutf at strace.c:644
 #1 startup_attach at strace.c:976
 #2 init at strace.c:1836
Comment 1 Michal Toman 2014-08-13 08:49:37 UTC 
The same happens on RHEL7 with strace-4.8-8.bs3.ppc64le
Comment 3 Michal Toman 2014-08-13 12:09:53 UTC 
Created attachment 926382 [details]
strace-ptrace-prototype.patch

Upstream commit 03ef0b2665363adf6100bc4af479a14b5f17bc27 fixes the problem. Attaching the patch applicable to RHEL7 dist git.
Comment 9 Michael Petlan 2015-05-13 10:01:05 UTC 
Tests passed for strace-4.8-10.ael7b.ppc64le
Comment 11 Michael Petlan 2015-06-01 13:12:23 UTC 
Tested with the latest .el7 build - strace-4.8-10.el7.ppc64le --> VERIFIED.
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 09:08:52 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2145.html