Bug 436998 – www-client/chromium-23 sad tabs (segfaults) with >=linux-3.5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Gilbert 2012-10-02 18:08:20 UTC]

Chromium 23 has a new "seccomp-bpf" sandbox which is enabled with Linux kernels 3.5 or greater. This is visible in the chrome://sandbox page.

This sandbox seems to cause segfaults when rendering certain sites (GMail, for example).

As a workaround, you can add --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox to /etc/chromium/default.

This bug is just here to help Gentoo users who run into this issue. It has already been reported upstream.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149834

[Comment 1 Jason A. Donenfeld 2012-10-08 20:57:38 UTC]

Fixed here:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/content/common/sandbox_seccomp_bpf_linux.cc?r1=160697&r2=160696&pathrev=160697
https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11073003

Upstream bug report:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149834

[Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2012-10-09 06:57:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed here:
> 
> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/content/common/
> sandbox_seccomp_bpf_linux.cc?r1=160697&r2=160696&pathrev=160697
> https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11073003
> 
> Upstream bug report:
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149834

Thanks, that was a good upstream bug. I think we're going to just wait for an M23 release that has that patch.

[Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2012-10-14 17:48:50 UTC]

Just got a report on irc of this happening with 23.0.1271.26.

I was hoping upstream is going to merge the patch to 23 branch, but if they don't, we should do it.

[Comment 4 Mark R. Pariente 2012-10-14 22:11:09 UTC]

Can confirm that its still there with 23.0.1271.26.

[Comment 5 Andrew Savchenko 2012-10-15 04:18:49 UTC]

Hmm, strage: I had this problem after the world update (vanilla-sources-3.5.6 and chromium-23.0.1271.22), then I reemerge the same chromium version on fully updated system and them problem seems gone.

[Comment 6 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-10-15 11:13:42 UTC]

*** Bug 438382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Florian Klink 2012-10-15 23:48:58 UTC]

as in upstream bug report:

we said we're not merging this to m23 right?
Labels: -Mstone-23 Mstone-24

So this should probably get patched us.

This seems to be a one-liner: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/download/issue11073003_6001.diff

[Comment 8 Mike Gilbert 2012-10-16 01:31:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)

Thanks. I will apply this with the next beta channel bump.

[Comment 9 Florian Klink 2012-10-16 19:32:26 UTC]

wait. after some discussion, the merge was approved.
so it will be in the next beta channel, without any extra work.

[Comment 10 Mike Gilbert 2012-10-17 22:28:13 UTC]

chromium-23.0.1271.40 is in the tree and includes the upstream fix.

[Comment 11 Kamil Dudka 2014-02-11 10:49:38 UTC]

I have been observing the same symptomps with www-client/chromium-32.0.1700.102 and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.25.  Adding --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox to /etc/chromium/default resolved the issue.

[Comment 12 Mike Gilbert 2014-02-11 16:55:47 UTC]

(In reply to Kamil Dudka from comment #11)
> I have been observing the same symptomps with
> www-client/chromium-32.0.1700.102 and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.25. 
> Adding --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox to /etc/chromium/default resolved
> the issue.

File a new bug. This one has been resolved for over a year.