+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #851996 +++ Description of problem: Doing a volume group set with null value in group file resulted in a coredump Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Source from gerrit with http://review.gluster.com/#change,3831 How reproducible: Consistently Steps to Reproduce: 1. cat /var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt performance.write-behind= 2. gluster volume set test group virt 3. Actual results: gdb) bt #0 0x0000003324435965 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #1 0x0000003324437118 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:91 #2 0x000000332447568b in __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x3324578bc8 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:198 #3 0x000000332447c80e in malloc_printerr (ptr=0x7fe605eb1be0, str=0x3324576a55 "free(): invalid pointer", action=3) at malloc.c:5027 #4 _int_free (av=0x33247b0720, p=0x7fe605eb1bd0, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3948 #5 0x000000000041cd6d in cli_add_key_group (dict=dict@entry=0xa72708, value=value@entry=0x7fff6d6644da "virt", key=<optimized out>) at cli-cmd-parser.c:722 #6 0x000000000041e557 in cli_cmd_volume_set_parse (words=words@entry=0x7fff6d663af0, wordcount=wordcount@entry=5, options=options@entry=0x7fe605eb2de8) at cli-cmd-parser.c:787 #7 0x000000000040a422 in cli_cmd_volume_set_cbk (state=<optimized out>, word=0xa92aa0, words=0x7fff6d663af0, wordcount=5) at cli-cmd-volume.c:925 #8 0x0000000000408517 in cli_cmd_process (state=0x7fff6d663900, argc=5, argv=0x7fff6d663af0) at cli-cmd.c:150 #9 0x0000000000407fa0 in cli_batch (d=<optimized out>) at input.c:44 #10 0x0000003324807d14 in start_thread (arg=0x7fe605eb3700) at pthread_create.c:309 #11 0x00000033244f199d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:115 # /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster volume set test group virt *** glibc detected *** /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fe605eb1be0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x332447c80e] /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster[0x41cd6d] /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster(cli_cmd_volume_set_parse+0x257)[0x41e557] /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster(cli_cmd_volume_set_cbk+0xf2)[0x40a422] /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster(cli_cmd_process+0x137)[0x408517] /gluster/reviewgfs/sbin/gluster(cli_batch+0x10)[0x407fa0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x3324807d14] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x33244f199d]
http://review.gluster.org/3896 and http://review.gluster.org/3944 patches are merged in release-3.3 branch. This should fix the issue.
Verified with glusterfs-3.3.0rhsvirt1-8.el6rhs.x86_64