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Bug #735

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lttng-sessiond crashes on mx6q

Added by Stefan Seefeld over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Target version:
LTTng - 2.3
Start date:
02/18/2014
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% Done:

0%

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Description

The following sequence of commands fails on a sabrelite board with yocto and a recent LTTng 2.4 rc snapshot:

lttng create
lttng enable-event -a -u
lttng start

...would yield:

Error: Session name not found

It turns out that the "lttng enable-event -a -u" command results in the session daemon to crash.

uname reports "Linux mx6q 3.8.13.13 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 17 20:09:54 PKT 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux"

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0001-Fix-lttnd-sessiond-crash.patch (1.51 KB) 0001-Fix-lttnd-sessiond-crash.patch Stefan Seefeld, 02/25/2014 10:48 PM
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 #1

Updated by Mathieu Desnoyers over 10 years ago

  • Project changed from LTTng-UST to LTTng-tools
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 #2

Updated by David Goulet over 10 years ago

  • Target version deleted (2.4)

I need some gdb backtrace or/and sessiond log to go forward with that.

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 #3

Updated by Stefan Seefeld over 10 years ago

The last lines of lttng-sessiond -vvv are:

DEBUG1 [4449/4501]: Spawning consumerd (in spawn_consumerd() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:2153)
DEBUG2 [4449/4501]: Consumer pid 4510 (in start_consumerd() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:2339)
DEBUG2 [4449/4501]: Spawning consumer control thread (in start_consumerd() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:2342)
DEBUG1 [4449/4511]: [thread] Manage consumer started (in thread_manage_consumer() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:992)
DEBUG1 [4510/4510]: Using 32-bit UST consumer at: /usr/local/lttng-sabrelite-mel/lib/lttng/libexec/lttng-consumerd (in spawn_consumerd() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:2275)
DEBUG2 [4449/4511]: Receiving code from consumer err_sock (in thread_manage_consumer() at ../../../../lttng-tools/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c:1077)
Warning: No tracing group detected

Apparently the crash happens at main.c:1244, because "consumer_data->metadata_sock.fd_ptr" is NULL so the dereference causes the crash.

I'm investigating further, FWIW.

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 #4

Updated by Stefan Seefeld over 10 years ago

In fact, just visually inspecting the "thread_manage_consumer" function, I notice that consumer_data->metadata_sock.fd_ptr is initialized at line 1100 only. There are, however, "goto" statements to "error" et al. before that point, so it seems entirely possible to end up in line 1244 with the fd_ptr not being initialized.

I'll try to confirm that this is in fact what crashes the app tomorrow.

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 #5

Updated by Stefan Seefeld over 10 years ago

The attached patch seems to fix the crash I'm observing.
(It corrects the handling of an error condition. I now need to investigate that error condition, but that's likely worth a separate bug report.)

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 #6

Updated by David Goulet over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed
  • Target version set to 2.3
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 #7

Updated by David Goulet over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved

Ok typo in my commit :( (Fxies...)

commit 965444556d7b554bee46df96d7893d3d7518fa86
Author: Stefan Seefeld <>
Date: Tue Feb 25 22:44:30 2014 -0500

Fix: possible NULL deref. in sessiond error path
Fxies #735
Signed-off-by: Stefan Seefeld &lt;&gt;
    Signed-off-by: David Goulet &lt;&gt;
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