Created attachment 464220 [details] Script to create the interfaces Description of problem: With more than 256 interfaces on a system, the X sever will fail to start and crash (that affects all server variants Xorg, Xnest, etc.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.76.el5_5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create more then 250 network interfaces with the attached shell script 2. STart a X server such as Xnest Actual results: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x35b621d994] Xnest[0x41e0a9] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00752000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 100516 /usr/bin/Xnest 00952000-0098e000 rw-p 00352000 fd:00 100516 /usr/bin/Xnest 0098e000-009ac000 rw-p 0098e000 00:00 0 0137f000-013a0000 rw-p 0137f000 00:00 0 [heap] 35b5e00000-35b5e1c000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 262928 /lib64/ld-2.5.so 35b601b000-35b601c000 r--p 0001b000 fd:00 262928 /lib64/ld-2.5.so 35b601c000-35b601d000 rw-p 0001c000 fd:00 262928 /lib64/ld-2.5.so 35b6200000-35b634e000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 263448 /lib64/libc-2.5.so 35b634e000-35b654e000 ---p 0014e000 fd:00 263448 /lib64/libc-2.5.so 35b654e000-35b6552000 r--p 0014e000 fd:00 263448 /lib64/libc-2.5.so 35b6552000-35b6553000 rw-p 00152000 fd:00 263448 /lib64/libc-2.5.so 35b6553000-35b6558000 rw-p 35b6553000 00:00 0 35b6600000-35b6682000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271202 /lib64/libm-2.5.so 35b6682000-35b6881000 ---p 00082000 fd:00 271202 /lib64/libm-2.5.so 35b6881000-35b6882000 r--p 00081000 fd:00 271202 /lib64/libm-2.5.so 35b6882000-35b6883000 rw-p 00082000 fd:00 271202 /lib64/libm-2.5.so 35b6a00000-35b6a02000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271200 /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 35b6a02000-35b6c02000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 271200 /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 35b6c02000-35b6c03000 r--p 00002000 fd:00 271200 /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 35b6c03000-35b6c04000 rw-p 00003000 fd:00 271200 /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 35b7200000-35b7214000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101221 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 35b7214000-35b7413000 ---p 00014000 fd:00 101221 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 35b7413000-35b7414000 rw-p 00013000 fd:00 101221 /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 35b7600000-35b7705000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101214 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0 35b7705000-35b7905000 ---p 00105000 fd:00 101214 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0 35b7905000-35b790c000 rw-p 00105000 fd:00 101214 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0 35b7a00000-35b7a02000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101212 /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0 35b7a02000-35b7c01000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 101212 /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0 35b7c01000-35b7c02000 rw-p 00001000 fd:00 101212 /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0 35b7e00000-35b7e05000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101213 /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 35b7e05000-35b8004000 ---p 00005000 fd:00 101213 /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 35b8004000-35b8005000 rw-p 00004000 fd:00 101213 /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 35b8200000-35b8210000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101237 /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0 35b8210000-35b8410000 ---p 00010000 fd:00 101237 /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0 35b8410000-35b8411000 rw-p 00010000 fd:00 101237 /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0 35b8600000-35b867f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101242 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.3.10 35b867f000-35b887f000 ---p 0007f000 fd:00 101242 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.3.10 35b887f000-35b8884000 rw-p 0007f000 fd:00 101242 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.3.10 35b8a00000-35b8a02000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 262650 /lib64/libpam_misc.so.0.81.3 35b8a02000-35b8c02000 ---p 00002000 fd:00 262650 /lib64/libpam_misc.so.0.81.3 35b8c02000-35b8c03000 rw-p 00002000 fd:00 262650 /lib64/libpam_misc.so.0.81.3 35b8e00000-35b8e6f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101404 /usr/lib64/libXfont.so.1.4.1 35b8e6f000-35b906f000 ---p 0006f000 fd:00 101404 /usr/lib64/libXfont.so.1.4.1 35b906f000-35b907a000 rw-p 0006f000 fd:00 101404 /usr/lib64/libXfont.so.1.4.1 35b907a000-35b9089000 rw-p 35b907a000 00:00 0 35ba200000-35ba205000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 101403 /usr/lib64/libfontenc.so.1.0.0 35ba205000-35ba405000 ---p 00005000 fd:00 101403 /usr/lib64/libfontenc.so.1.0.0 35ba405000-35ba407000 rw-p 00005000 fd:00 101403 /usr/lib64/libfontenc.so.1.0.0 35bae00000-35bae17000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271210 /lib64/libaudit.so.0.0.0 35bae17000-35bb016000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 271210 /lib64/libaudit.so.0.0.0 35bb016000-35bb018000 rw-p 00016000 fd:00 271210 /lib64/libaudit.so.0.0.0 35bb200000-35bb20b000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271296 /lib64/libpam.so.0.81.5 35bb20b000-35bb40a000 ---p 0000b000 fd:00 271296 /lib64/libpam.so.0.81.5 35bb40a000-35bb40b000 rw-p 0000a000 fd:00 271296 /lib64/libpam.so.0.81.5 35bb600000-35bb63b000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271205 /lib64/libsepol.so.1 35bb63b000-35bb83b000 ---p 0003b000 fd:00 271205 /lib64/libsepol.so.1 35bb83b000-35bb83c000 rw-p 0003b000 fd:00 271205 /lib64/libsepol.so.1 35bb83c000-35bb846000 rw-p 35bb83c000 00:00 0 35bbe00000-35bbe15000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271206 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 35bbe15000-35bc015000 ---p 00015000 fd:00 271206 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 35bc015000-35bc017000 rw-p 00015000 fd:00 271206 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 35bc017000-35bc018000 rw-p 35bc017000 00:00 0 2aed36ae6000-2aed36ae7000 rw-p 2aed36ae6000 00:00 0 2aed36b11000-2aed36b19000 rw-p 2aed36b11000 00:00 0 2aed36b19000-2aed36b26000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 271428 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1 2aed36b26000-2aed36d26000 ---p 0000d000 fd:00 271428 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1 2aed36d26000-2aed36d27000 rw-p 0000d000 fd:00 271428 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1 2aed38000000-2aed38021000 rw-p 2aed38000000 00:00 0 2aed38021000-2aed3c000000 ---p 2aed38021000 00:00 0 7fff10ca3000-7fff10cb8000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffe00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Aborted (core dumped) (gdb) bt #0 0x00000035b6230265 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #1 0x00000035b6231d10 in abort () at abort.c:88 #2 0x00000035b626a99b in __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x35b6322708 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:170 #3 0x00000035b62748f4 in malloc_printerr (av=0x35b65539e0, oldp=0xbb0b20, nb=32) at malloc.c:6205 #4 _int_realloc (av=0x35b65539e0, oldp=0xbb0b20, nb=32) at malloc.c:5158 #5 0x00000035b62753e2 in __libc_realloc (oldmem=0xbb0b30, bytes=16) at malloc.c:3768 #6 0x00000000006add6b in Xrealloc (ptr=0xf86, amount=<value optimized out>) at utils.c:1471 #7 0x00000035b7e01f13 in XdmcpReallocARRAYofARRAY8 (array=0x9a32d0, length=3974) at RaAoA8.c:45 #8 0x00000000006b68a0 in XdmcpRegisterConnection (type=0, address=0xbae824 "\001\002\006\001", addrlen=4) at xdmcp.c:502 #9 0x00000000006a8f90 in DefineSelf (fd=<value optimized out>) at access.c:1060 #10 0x00000000006aaf23 in CreateWellKnownSockets () at connection.c:432 #11 0x0000000000445ad3 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe8e8, envp=0x7fffffffe900) at main.c:318 Expected results: No crash Additional info: It's https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20675 fixed by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=0eb19f9437b7d8c19592e49eedb028771d300d80 Patch attached.
Created attachment 464221 [details] Patch backported from git commit 0eb19f94 upstream
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