Bug 907515

Summary:	gtk2hs timer program compiled with ghc 7.4 segfaults on i686
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Garrett Mitchener <garrett.mitchener>
Component:	ghc	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	bos, haskell-devel, petersen
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ghc-7.4.2-11.2.fc19	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Garrett Mitchener 2013-02-04 15:34:24 UTC

Description of problem:

I wrote a Haskell program using gtk2hs. It works fine on Fedora 17 under ghc 7.0.4. However it crashes with a segmentation fault when compiled on Fedora 18 or rawhide(19). The crash occurs the first time an action added to the gtk loop with timeoutAddFull runs.

I wrote a minimal test case that triggers the problem and posted it here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7629

It seems to be a compiler or run-time-system bug in ghc 7.4.1 and 7.4.2 or possibly gtk2hs, because the binary built on F18 or rawhide crashes when run on F17, and the binary built on F17 runs without a problem on F18.

Furthermore, if I disable selinux on the kernel command line at boot time, the crash vanishes in F18 and rawhide. I don't know why-- the crash doesn't trigger any selinux error messages, just a segmentation fault.

Jens Petersen reported to me that the crash does not occur on 64 bit test machines on Fedora 18, but he confirmed that it does occur on 32 bit test machines.

I've run into pointer alignment problems with ghc before, where alignment pragmas in C modules are somehow broken when the C module is linked with a ghc program, so that may be the case here?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ghc 7.4.1 and 7.4.2.

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:

Compile and run the test program posted in the haskell.org trac bug report

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7629

I'm also posting the bug here in case someone else runs into it.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2013-02-05 03:33:04 UTC

I simplified the test-case further in the ticket just to use glib, but same story.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2013-09-28 08:02:25 UTC

It would be good to retest with ghc-7.6.3 in F20.

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Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2013-12-24 07:02:51 UTC

I believe this should be fixed in ghc-7.6.3.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2014-01-29 01:33:07 UTC

(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #4)
> I believe this should be fixed in ghc-7.6.3.

It is not, but will be in the coming 7.8.

I will backport Garret's patch committed upstream:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7629

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2014-01-29 05:38:29 UTC

I can confirm that the patch fixes the issue in ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20.i686.

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2014-01-29 05:39:16 UTC

(still assigned for now since fix not built yet for f19)

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-01-29 08:25:57 UTC

ghc-7.4.2-11.2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghc-7.4.2-11.2.fc19

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-01-29 08:26:11 UTC

ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-01-30 03:37:15 UTC

Package ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-1787/ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-02-17 21:08:48 UTC

ghc-7.6.3-18.3.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2014-03-19 08:42:38 UTC

ghc-7.4.2-11.2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.