Bug 1291857 – When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump

Bug 1291857 - When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump

Summary:	When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat OpenStack
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	erlang (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0 (RHEL 7)
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	high Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	async
Target Release:	5.0 (RHEL 7)
Assigned To:	John Eckersberg
QA Contact:	nlevinki
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Keywords:	ZStream

Depends On:	1291822
Blocks:	1262455 1291855
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Reported:	2015-12-15 12:51 EST by John Eckersberg
Modified:	2016-02-11 08:44 EST (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	erlang-R16B-03.7min.3.el7ost
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Clone Of:	1291822
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Last Closed:	2016-02-11 08:44:07 EST
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Description John Eckersberg 2015-12-15 12:51:58 EST

+++ 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 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-02-11 08:44:07 EST

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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0167.html

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