Bug 465311

Summary: segfaults on x86_64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: daw-redhatbugzilla, twaugh
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-10-02 17:48:21 UTC
One of my packages (lout) calls ps2pdf to generate documentation from some generated .ps files, and while this works fine for me locally (on a rawhide system) and in a f10 mock instance, when I try to build this through koji, the build fails because ps2pdf segfaults.

See Bugzilla 465017 for the logs showing the ps2pdf segfault.

Matt Domsch was able to reproduce this in his rawhide rebuilds, and got a gdb backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
names_trace_finish (nt=0x607598, gcst=0x7fffffffe7d0) at src/iname.c:418
418                     o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)ssub - 1);
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install cairo.x86_64 cups.x86_64 e2fsprogs.x86_64 expat.x86_64 gcc.x86_64 glibc.x86_64 gnutls.x86_64 jasper.x86_64 keyutils.x86_64 krb5.x86_64 libICE.x86_64 libSM.x86_64 libX11.x86_64 libXau.x86_64 libXdmcp.x86_64 libXext.x86_64 libXrender.x86_64 libgcrypt.x86_64 libgpg-error.x86_64 libjpeg.x86_64 libpng.x86_64 libselinux.x86_64 libtasn1.x86_64 libtiff.x86_64 libxcb.x86_64 pixman.x86_64 zlib.x86_64
(gdb) bt
#0  names_trace_finish (nt=0x607598, gcst=0x7fffffffe7d0) at src/iname.c:418
#1  0x00007ffff76aae32 in gs_gc_reclaim (pspaces=<value optimized out>, global=1) at src/igc.c:371
#2  0x00007ffff7721d87 in context_reclaim (pspaces=0x643948, global=1) at src/zcontext.c:283
#3  0x00007ffff7685060 in gs_vmreclaim () at src/ireclaim.c:153
#4  ireclaim (dmem=0x643940, space=8) at src/ireclaim.c:75
#5  0x00007ffff7680961 in interp_reclaim (pi_ctx_p=0x6028a8, space=8) at src/interp.c:427
#6  0x00007ffff767784c in gs_main_finit (minst=0x602810, exit_status=0, code=0) at src/imain.c:752
#7  0x00007ffff767b258 in gsapi_exit (lib=<value optimized out>) at src/iapi.c:262
#8  0x0000000000400a4c in main (argc=14, argv=<value optimized out>) at src/dxmainc.c:88

(gdb) list src/iname.c:418
413             if (sub != 0) {
414                 name_scan_sub(nt, i, true);
415                 if (nt->sub[i].names == 0 && gcst != 0) {
416                     /* Mark the just-freed sub-table as unmarked. */
417                     o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)sub - 1);
418                     o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)ssub - 1);
419                 }
420             }
421             if (i == 0)
422                 break;

This backtrace implicates ghostscript as the culprit. Even though I can't actively reproduce this, I wanted to file it.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2008-10-16 15:55:10 UTC
I can't really see anything wrong in the code, and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem myself.

I rebuild ghostscript recently (it's now ghostscript-8.63-3.fc10).  Can you still reproduce the problem in koji?

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2008-10-17 14:31:07 UTC
I've just built ghostscript-8.63-4.fc10 with this patch:

--- ghostscript-8.63/src/iname.c.465311	2008-10-17 11:52:31.000000000 +0100
+++ ghostscript-8.63/src/iname.c	2008-10-17 11:53:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ names_trace_finish(name_table * nt, gc_s
 	    if (nt->sub[i].names == 0 && gcst != 0) {
 		/* Mark the just-freed sub-table as unmarked. */
 		o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)sub - 1);
-		o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)ssub - 1);
+		if (ssub != 0)
+		    o_set_unmarked((obj_header_t *)ssub - 1);
 	    }
 	}
 	if (i == 0)

It would be a useful data point to know whether that works around the problem.

Comment 4 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-10-17 15:17:04 UTC
Nope. It does not change the failure:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=886345&name=build.log

This is very strange, because I can only reproduce it in Fedora koji, not in a local build or local mock. I'm wondering if perhaps it is a resource constraint issue?

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:28:41 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2010-03-12 17:47:45 UTC
*** Bug 568554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2010-03-12 17:48:39 UTC
Re-opening and changing version to 12.

Bug is observable using valgrind.

Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2010-03-12 18:01:37 UTC
Does anyone see this crash still with ghostscript-8.71-4.fc12?

Comment 12 Tim Waugh 2010-09-02 11:17:09 UTC
This has been fixed upstream.  Patch backported in ghostscript-8.71-12.fc12.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:05:52 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc12

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:06:44 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:07:47 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 16:43:45 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ghostscript'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:52:14 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:55:11 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:56:45 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2010-10-11 19:25:15 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2010-10-12 03:13:09 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2010-10-14 23:01:15 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.