+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1370931 +++ Description of problem: Very similar to how upcall events are allocated by gfapi and returned to the applications, glfs_realpath() uses malloc(). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all How reproducible: Compile an application that calls glfs_realpath() and have the function allocate the memory on behalf of the application. If the application uses a different memory allocated (i.e. jemalloc), free() will not work correctly and can cause segfaults. Additional info: See http://review.gluster.org/14701 for a more complete description. --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-08-28 16:36:33 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#1) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-08-29 13:52:54 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#2) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-08-29 22:05:12 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#3) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-09-13 13:40:25 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#4) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-09-30 13:10:24 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#5) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-09-30 15:49:11 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#6) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-10-10 15:33:38 CEST --- REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/15332 (gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory) posted (#7) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) --- Additional comment from Worker Ant on 2016-10-11 09:14:04 CEST --- COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/15332 committed in master by Niels de Vos (ndevos) ------ commit 85e959052148ec481823d55c8b91cdee36da2b43 Author: Niels de Vos <ndevos> Date: Tue Sep 13 09:03:56 2016 +0200 gfapi: warn when glfs_realpath() returned malloc'd memory glfs_realpath() may return memory allocated with malloc(). Depending on the memory allocator that the application uses, calling free() on the returned string can cause segmentation faults or other problems. Functions that allocate memory, need to match the free'ing of the same memory allocator and memory accounting. glibc/malloc and jemalloc/free do not match together (other allocators could probably trigger these problems as well). Applications need to provide a pre-allocated buffer, or in case glfs_realpath() allocates the memory, glfs_free() should be used to free it. Change-Id: I5d721a7425674aa700db8a7a436cbedb95a5927f BUG: 1370931 Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/15332 CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins.org> Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins.org> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins.org> Reviewed-by: Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle>
This bug is getting closed because the 3.8 version is marked End-Of-Life. There will be no further updates to this version. Please open a new bug against a version that still receives bugfixes if you are still facing this issue in a more current release.