Bug 519480

Summary: 64-bit strace is lazy on execve of 32-bit process
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Reiser <jreiser>
Component: straceAssignee: Roland McGrath <roland>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: dvlasenk, ldv, roland, schwab
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Hardware: x86_64   
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Fixed In Version: 4.5.19-1.fc10 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description John Reiser 2009-08-26 19:02:57 UTC
Description of problem: When run on (64-bit) x86_64, then strace for execve() of a (32-bit) i686 process prints just the address when an argv string or environment variable resides above 0xfffffffffff00000.  This happens even in -v mode (verbose), and makes strace much less useful.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
strace-4.5.18-3.fc12.x86_64


How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce on x86_64 (64-bit):
1. yum install wine
2. wine Notepad  ## starts some background processes
3. File > Exit   ## terminate first Notepad
4. strace -v -f -o strace.out -e trace=execve wine Notepad
5. File > Exit   ## terminate second Notepad
 
Actual results: File strace.out contains the strings for the first execve, but just the addresses for most of the other execve.  Example:
----- first execve
2290  execve("/usr/bin/wine", ["wine", "Notepad"], ["ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-jreis"..., "HOSTNAME=f12a64.local", "IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes"..., {{snip}}
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----- second execve
2290  execve("/usr/bin/../lib/../bin/wine-preloader", ["/usr/bin/../lib/../bin/wine-prel"..., "/usr/bin/../lib/../bin/wine", 0xfffffffffff9a5f6], [0xfffffffffff9a5fe, 0xfffffffffff9a621, 0xfffffffffff9a637, {{snip}}
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Expected results: Arguments and environment variables to execve are printed as strings in every case.


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Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2009-09-18 23:59:11 UTC
Fixed in upstream git, see http://strace.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=strace/strace;h=v4.5.18-102-g99c8569

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-10-21 18:09:02 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/strace-4.5.19-1.fc10

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-10-21 18:09:47 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/strace-4.5.19-1.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 06:32:51 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 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 strace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-10733

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 07:13:38 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 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 strace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10843

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-11-13 02:32:45 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-11-13 02:34:09 UTC
strace-4.5.19-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.