Bug 103898 – valgrind on amd64 (compiled with --enable-pie) enters an endless loop

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Samuele Kaplun 2005-08-27 03:00:58 UTC]

Current valgrind is by default compiled with --enable-pie. On amd64 if I run 
it, it enters an endless loop hogging the cpu (I can see the cpu is 100% in 
kernel mode). My kernel allow me to continue to use my computer but the only 
way to kill valgrind is to reboot. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge valgrind 
2.valgrind 
 
Actual Results:  
endless loop hogging the cpu in kernel mode 

Expected Results:  
It should at least output: 
valgrind: no program specified 
valgrind: Use --help for more information. 
 

If I recompile it by hand without --enable-pie all works weel (excepts I 
cannot address more than 2Gb as they stated on valgrind website) 
 
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 
2.6.13-rc6-sk2 x86_64) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.13-rc6-sk2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6 
ccache version 2.4 [disabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" 
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/service" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo 
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ 
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ 
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html " 
LANG="it_IT@euro" 
LC_ALL="it_IT" 
LINGUAS="it" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="amd64 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa arts audiofile avi 
bash-completion bash-completition bcmath berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth 
bonobo browserplugin bzlib caps cdparanoia cdr cpudetection crypt css ctype 
cups curl dbm dbus dbx dga doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd exif 
expat fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gb gd 
gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl iconv 
ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit 
kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libedit libgda 
libwww lirc live lm_sensors logitech logitech-mouse lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash 
mikmod mime mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn musepack mysql 
mysqli ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl pam pcmcia pcre 
pdflib perl plotutils plugin png posix postgres ppds python qt quicktime 
readline real rtc samba scanner sdl session sharedext sharedmem simplexml 
slang sndfile snmp soap sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl 
sumlink svg sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer 
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd 
videos visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xface xine 
xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xsl xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib 
linguas_it userland_GNU elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2005-08-27 03:27:28 UTC]

Is this the same thing as https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103898 and its
corresponding upstream bug report http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109861 ?

Does the problem disappear when built without PIE?

[Comment 2 Samuele Kaplun 2005-08-27 04:03:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1) 
> Is this the same thing as https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103898 and 
its 
 
Well, this is bug 103898 :-D 
 
> corresponding upstream bug report 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109861 ? 
 
Yes I think. 
>  
> Does the problem disappear when built without PIE? 
 
Yes it disappear and all works well 

[Comment 3 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2005-08-27 05:34:17 UTC]

Alright. The next valgrind version is supposed to be released in a few days.
I will address this problem then.

[Comment 4 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2005-08-30 09:18:06 UTC]

Oh man! I only just realised that the link I pasted was to this bug. =]

What I meant was... is it the same as this one:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102157

[Comment 5 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2005-08-30 12:59:11 UTC]

Should be fixed in 3.0.1, because it doesn't build with PIE anymore.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102157 ***

[Comment 6 Samuele Kaplun 2005-08-30 23:47:35 UTC]

Yes, you are right. This is a duplicate bug. Sorry for that :-)