Bug 301109 – glibc 2.10.1-r1 strlen() segmentation fault

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Nuno Sucena Almeida 2010-01-15 15:56:58 UTC]

After upgrading to glibc 2.10.1-r1 from glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, I got segmentation fault with some proprietary software. Using gdb with backtrace it stops at strlen(). Bumping the version to 2.11-r1 the problem disappears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge glibc 2.10.1-r1
2. run proprietary software
3. Crashes while calling strlen()

Actual Results:  
Program crashed.

Expected Results:  
Software should have run as before.

Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5-server x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-server-x86_64-AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_250-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.9-r2
dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=opteron"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind /var/spool/torque"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=opteron"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=opteron"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="/remote/distfiles/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en pt"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 apache2 atlas audiofile bash-completion berkdb bjam blas boost bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dga djvu doc dri dvd dvdread emacs encode examples extras f77 fftw flac fortran gcl gd gdbm gif ginac git gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsl gtk gtk2 hdf hdf5 hlapi iconv imagemagick ipv6 jack jadetex jpeg kde kerberos kpathsea lapack latex ldap loop-aes mmx modules mozilla mpeg mpi mudflap multilib ncurses netcdf nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pbs pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd pyste python qhull qt qt3 qt3support qt4 readline reflection rpc rrdtool samba sbcl sensord server session sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subversion svg svnserve sysfs szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk tools truetype umfpack unicode v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi wmf xattr xine xinerama xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en pt" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-01-16 14:57:21 UTC]

No example of said propietary software mentioned, and missing (gdb) backtrace. Closing as NEEDINFO.