Bug 853175

Summary: debugmode: glibc mcheck does not work (with threads)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: iarlyy, jonathan, law, lnykryn, notting, plautrba, rvokal, vpavlin
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Description Jan Kratochvil 2012-08-30 16:29:30 UTC
Description of problem:
According to
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/314931/glibcs-lmcheck-option-and-multithreading
  -> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6547
using MALLOC_CHECK_ breaks programs using threads.
This unfortunately means MALLOC_CHECK_ is not applicable globally at all, it causes false crash positives.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
debugmode-9.34.3-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Did not try myself but just read a bugreport.

Steps to Reproduce:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6547

Additional info:
MALLOC_CHECK_ is not applicable, checked also glibc sources PR 6547 is still valid.
MALLOC_PERTURB_ seems to be safe and working according to glibc sources.
G_SLICE=debug-blocks is unrelated and robably still applicable.

I got notified about it in:
  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-08/msg00097.html

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-08-30 16:44:01 UTC
Well, that's dumb. Jeff, any chance that is fixable these days?

Comment 2 Jeff Law 2012-09-18 12:55:45 UTC
Not without a redesign of the interfaces used by malloc_check.  They simply weren't ever designed with multi-threaded access in mind and are inherently broken.

I don't think this has bubbled up high enough on anyone's radar right now.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2012-09-25 05:24:04 UTC
OK, fixed in git.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-10-05 18:23:36 UTC
initscripts-9.41-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.41-1.fc18

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-06 05:28:29 UTC
Package initscripts-9.41-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing initscripts-9.41-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15530/initscripts-9.41-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-08 23:54:01 UTC
Package initscripts-9.41-2.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing initscripts-9.41-2.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15530/initscripts-9.41-2.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-11-15 22:20:18 UTC
initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-11-15 22:23:24 UTC
initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-11-20 03:06:42 UTC
initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-11-24 03:30:51 UTC
initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.