Bug 1291856

Summary:	When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	John Eckersberg <jeckersb>
Component:	erlang	Assignee:	John Eckersberg <jeckersb>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Udi Kalifon <ukalifon>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0 (Juno)	CC:	apevec, fdinitto, jeckersb, lhh, nlevinki, nyechiel, plemenko, srevivo
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	6.0 (Juno)
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	erlang-R16B-03.7min.3.el7ost	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:	1291822	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-06-08 12:09:56 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1291822
Bug Blocks:	1291855

Description John Eckersberg 2015-12-15 17:51:40 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1291822 +++

Erlang aborts in dist_port_command with ERTS_ABORT_EXIT:

    if (size > (Uint) INT_MAX)
	erl_exit(ERTS_ABORT_EXIT,
		 "Absurdly large distribution output data buffer "
		 "(%beu bytes) passed.\n",
		 size);

However, ERTS_ABORT_EXIT inhibits erlang crash dump generation.  It would be better to exit with ERTS_DUMP_EXIT so a crash dump is generated, in order to help debug crashes from large messages.

Comment 3 Udi Kalifon 2016-05-30 08:57:03 UTC

Verified in Juno 2016-05-04 with erlang-R16B-03.7min.3.el7ost.x86_64, using the explosivo.sh script from bug #1291822.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-08 12:09:56 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1211