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Bug 609196 - dev-lang/perl-5.22.3_rc4 test failure on arm64 ( Failed test 1 - alarm w/$SIG{ALRM} vs inf loop at op/alarm.t )
Summary: dev-lang/perl-5.22.3_rc4 test failure on arm64 ( Failed test 1 - alarm w/$SIG...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
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Keywords: TESTFAILURE
Depends on:
Blocks: CVE-2016-1238
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Reported: 2017-02-13 00:14 UTC by Michael Weber (RETIRED)
Modified: 2017-02-21 02:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
build.log arm64 (build.log.gz,102.49 KB, application/gzip)
2017-02-13 00:16 UTC, Michael Weber (RETIRED)
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Description Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-13 00:14:39 UTC
Portage 2.3.3 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/arm64/13.0, gcc-4.9.4, glibc-2.22-r4, 3.10.104 aarch64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.10.104-aarch64-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     2036444 total,    455104 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 01:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p48-r1  
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
ccache version 3.2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p48-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.3_rc4::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:          3.2.4::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.19.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.4::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.22-r4::gentoo
Repositories:       
                    
gentoo              
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000 
                    
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=cortex-a53 -pipe"
CHOST="aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-backup unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://lore.xmw.de/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="acl arm64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 modules multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline seccomp session ssl tcpd unicode xattr zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-13 00:16:12 UTC
Created attachment 463550 [details]
build.log arm64
Comment 2 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-13 00:35:06 UTC
Important log context:

===(  224942;303  1563/1946  0/? )======================================# Failed test 1 - alarm w/$SIG{ALRM} vs inf loop at op/alarm.t line 34
#      got ""
# expected "ALARM!\n"
# Failed test 2 -    right time (waited 981 secs for 3-sec alarm) at op/alarm.t line 35
op/alarm.t ........................................................ Failed 2/5 subtests 


Test Summary Report
-------------------
op/alarm.t                                                      (Wstat: 0 Tests: 5 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  1-2
Files=2381, Tests=720520, 2518 wallclock secs (571.20 usr 42.31 sys + 2657.55 cusr 199.06 csys = 3470.12 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Comment 3 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-13 02:14:05 UTC
Is this failure reliably reproducable? Just alarm's triggering can be kinda strange.
Comment 4 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-21 02:05:20 UTC
Sorry, nowhere near enough data here to resolve this.

Anything involving SIG{ALRM} is very sensitive to time, and given that the following trivial loop calling nothing but "time" and doing basic math takes 16 minutes to run:

https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.22.3/t/op/alarm.t#L26-28

  alarm 3;
 
  # perlfunc recommends against using sleep in combination with alarm.
  1 while (($end_time = time) - $start_time < 6);
  alarm 0;

That it suggests the system environment is too anomalous to make sense of without significant context.

Reopen if you can reliably reproduce this bug outside of suspending operating systems or processes or having syslock perform time-travel.