Bug 83111 - efence broken on Hammer
Summary: efence broken on Hammer
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: ElectricFence
Version: 1.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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Blocks: 79579
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-30 13:40 UTC by Joe Orton
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-04 16:42:31 UTC
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Description Joe Orton 2003-01-30 13:40:17 UTC
Description of problem:
ElectricFence dumps core on Hammer immediately at startup.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ElectricFence-2.2.2-14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
e.g.
$ ef ls

anything linked against -lefence does likewise, as does running the test suite
in the EF sources.

Actual results:

  Electric Fence 2.2.0 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce>
/usr/bin/ef: line 20:  1132 Segmentation fault      ( export
LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0; exec $* )


Expected results:
No segfaults.


Additional info:
EF test suite passes if not compiled with -DUSE_SEMAPHORE.
From adding debugging, the segfault occurs in exactly the pthread_self() call in
efence.c:lock().

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2003-01-30 13:57:57 UTC
(As an aside, efence.c seems to assume 0 isn't a valid pthread_t, which I don't
believe is correct, and it probably should be using pthread_equal rather than !=
to compare pthread_t values.  Neither of these seem to be the cause of the
segfaults, however.)

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2003-02-04 16:42:31 UTC
Should be fixed in ElectricFence-2.2.2-15.

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2003-02-04 16:55:33 UTC
Thanks Jakub, works fine for me now.


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