On 26.10.2016 13:48, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
Hi, I was wondering about a crash when building dovecot 2.2.25 on latest Ubuntu. I wondered as I've had the same source building on Debian just fine.
Some debugging led me to this weird behavior: Using this gdb command file called autoreportissue in my case: break dcrypt_initialize commands p dcrypt_vfs p &dcrypt_vfs watch dcrypt_vfs c end break dcrypt_set_vfs commands p dcrypt_vfs p &dcrypt_vfs c end r
Running test-crypto on Debian and Ubuntu reported those two behaviours: gdb -d /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/ -x autoreportissue ./test-crypto
Good: Breakpoint 1, dcrypt_initialize (backend=0x555555587c02 "openssl", set=0x0, error_r=0x0) at dcrypt.c:15 15 if (dcrypt_vfs != NULL) { $1 = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x0 $2 = (struct dcrypt_vfs **) 0x555555796370
Hardware watchpoint 3: dcrypt_vfs Breakpoint 2, dcrypt_set_vfs (vfs=0x7ffff7835020 ) at dcrypt.c:56 56 dcrypt_vfs = vfs; $3 = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x0 $4 = (struct dcrypt_vfs **) 0x555555796370 Hardware watchpoint 3: dcrypt_vfs Old value = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x0 New value = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x7ffff7835020 dcrypt_set_vfs (vfs=0x7ffff7835020 ) at dcrypt.c:57 57 } Bad: Breakpoint 1, dcrypt_initialize (backend=0x555555589f02 "openssl", set=0x0, error_r=0x0) at dcrypt.c:11 11 { $1 = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x0 $2 = (struct dcrypt_vfs **) 0x555555798370
Hardware watchpoint 3: dcrypt_vfs Breakpoint 2, dcrypt_set_vfs (vfs=0x7ffff780a020 ) at dcrypt.c:56 56 dcrypt_vfs = vfs; $3 = (struct dcrypt_vfs *) 0x0 $4 = (struct dcrypt_vfs **) 0x7ffff780a890 Panic: file dcrypt.c: line 34 (dcrypt_initialize): assertion failed: (dcrypt_vfs != NULL) Error: Raw backtrace: /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(+0x15f7c) [0x555555569f7c] -> /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(default_error_handler+0) [0x55555556a030] -> /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(i_fatal+0) [0x55555556a2ff] -> /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(dcrypt_initialize+0x140) [0x55555555f030] -> /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(main+0x23) [0x55555556706d] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7ffff782d3f1] -> /root/dovecot-2.2.25/src/lib-dcrypt/test-crypto(_start+0x2a) [0x55555555edea] Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. One can see that in the bad case the pointer of dcrypt_vfs is pointing to something of the scope of the .libs/libdcrypt_openssl.so file and not the dcrypt_initialize of test-crypto.
That made me wonder even more - where would this issue of variable scope come from. After more debugging I found that the linker flag "-Bsymbolic-functions" is the reason. This is default on recent Ubuntu, but not on Debian (?yet?).
Eventually what happens is that the dcrypt_vfs becomes part of the .libs/libdcrypt_openssl.so. So the call from there to dcrypt_set_vfs ends up setting not the expected variable. I was unable to come up with a reasonable fix since I'm not enough into your sublib structure.
For now I assume I'm gonna build the package stripping this flag in Ubuntu. But long term I think dovecot should fix it to work with that compiler flag. Therefore the report to make you aware.
P.S. thanks to the dovecot community for having unit tests that find this at build time!
-- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
Hi!
Thank you for reporting this, we'll look into it.
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