Bug #1242
openSEGV on process exit with shared library
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Description
Our application has a main process and a dynamically loaded library.
Both are using Lttng userspace tracepoints.
On process exit (initiated by ctrl-C) the main process does its cleanup and calls dlclose() on the dynamic libary.
That part is handled normally.
The issue is that later the main process gets a SEGV in the lttng-ust library cleanup logic.
Does the lttng internals still have references to the unloaded memory.
[Switching to Thread 0xfffff722b010 (LWP 18895)]
0x0000fffff7ea3b1c in ?? () from /lib/liblttng-ust.so.0
(gdb) where
#0 0x0000fffff7ea3b1c in ?? () from /lib/liblttng-ust.so.0
#1 0x0000fffff7fdcb1c in dl_fini () at dl-fini.c:138
#2 0x0000fffff79e12d0 in __run_exit_handlers (status=0, listp=0xfffff7b125c8 <_exit_funcs>,
run_list_atexit=run_list_atexit@entry=true, run_dtors=run_dtors@entry=true) at exit.c:108
#3 0x0000fffff79e1434 in __GI_exit (status=<optimized out>) at exit.c:139
#4 0x0000fffff79cdce8 in __libc_start_main (main=0xaaaaaaab2a60 <main>, argc=3, argv=0xfffffffffbf8, init=<optimized out>,
fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=<optimized out>) at ../csu/libc-start.c:342
#5 0x0000aaaaaaab336c in _start () at ../sysdeps/aarch64/start.S:94
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.
Inferior 1 [process 18895] will be killed.Updated by Mathieu Desnoyers over 4 years ago
- Project changed from LTTng to LTTng-UST
- Assignee set to Mathieu Desnoyers
Let's start with a likely probable cause. As documented in lttng-ust(3):
Note that it is not safe to use dlclose(3) on a tracepoint provider
shared object that is being actively used for tracing, due to a lack of
reference counting from LTTng-UST to the shared object.
So a few questions about this specific application:
- Does the dlclose'd library contain a tracepoint provider object, or depends on a .so which contains a tracepoint provider object ?
- Is there an active tracing session targeting the UST (userspace) tracing domain when this happens ? Does the problem show up with both tracing enabled and disabled ?
- Can you provide the log reproducing the issue with the application launched with the environment variable LTTNG_UST_DEBUG=1 set ?
- Can you provide a gdb backtrace of the SIGSEGV with the symbols corresponding to the addresses for the lttng-ust.so.0 symbols ?
Updated by Mathieu Desnoyers over 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback