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Subject: Re: Crash when using access security
From: Till Straumann <[email protected]>
To: Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]>
Cc: epics Techtalk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:30:27 -0700
If you look at epicsSingleton.h then you'll find that the _build() method
just invokes 'new'.

The bad news are that when an operation involving the memory allocator
results in a segmentation fault then that is in most cases due to heap
corruption (e.g., because of a buffer overrun). The code which is to blame
is often entirely unrelated to where the crash happens.

- Till

On 04/22/2013 12:23 PM, Rod Nussbaumer wrote:
Hi all.

Below is pasted the debug output from an IOC running under gdb. The IOC
repeatably segfaults whenever asSetFilename is called with an
access-security file that works on other IOCs.
The IOC in question is running on Linux:

Linux icarm178 2.6.21-ts #4 PREEMPT Wed Jan 27 17:12:25 MST 2010 armv4tl GNU/Linux
on an ARM that otherwise runs IOCs reliably.

The segmentation fault occurs at some point during iocInit. I cannot
really tell where or how to look more closely.
  The 'asInit...' messages
seen here are from some printf()s I put into the asInitCommon function
in asDbLib.c while trying to sort out the problem.

Looking for any pointers on where or how to focus further diagnostics.

Thanks.

Rod Nussbaumer
ISAC Controls, TRIUMF
Vancouver, Canada




iocInit
[New Thread 32769 (LWP 2488)]
[New Thread 16386 (LWP 2489)]
Starting iocInit
############################################################################
## EPICS R3.14.12.2 $Date: Mon 2011-12-12 14:09:32 -0600$
## EPICS Base built Aug 31 2012
############################################################################
[New Thread 32771 (LWP 2490)]
[New Thread 49156 (LWP 2491)]
[New Thread 65541 (LWP 2492)]
[New Thread 81926 (LWP 2493)]
[New Thread 98311 (LWP 2494)]
[New Thread 114696 (LWP 2495)]
[New Thread 131081 (LWP 2496)]
[New Thread 147466 (LWP 2497)]
[New Thread 163851 (LWP 2498)]
[New Thread 180236 (LWP 2499)]
[New Thread 196621 (LWP 2500)]
[New Thread 213006 (LWP 2501)]
[New Thread 229391 (LWP 2502)]
[New Thread 245776 (LWP 2503)]
asInit: entered
asInitCommon: entered
asInitCommon: calling asInitFile
asInitCommon: returned from asInitFile
asInitCommon: calling asCaStart
[New Thread 262161 (LWP 2504)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 262161 (LWP 2504)]
0x0008b640 in epicsSingleton<localHostName>::_build () at ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h:187
187     ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h: No such file or directory.
         in ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h
Current language:  auto; currently c++
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0008b640 in epicsSingleton<localHostName>::_build () at ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h:187
#1  0x000f80d0 in SingletonUntyped::incrRefCount (this=0x14ed64, pBuild=0x8b624 <epicsSingleton<localHostName>::_build()>)
     at ../../../src/libCom/cxxTemplates/epicsSingletonMutex.cpp:48
#2  0x0008b5c8 in reference (this=0x1a94bc, es=@0x14ed64) at ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h:85
#3  0x0008b614 in epicsSingleton<localHostName>::getReference (this=0x14ed64) at ../../../include/epicsSingleton.h:205
#4  0x000b65bc in cac (this=0x1a94b0, mutualExclusionIn=@0x1a92c8, callbackControlIn=@0x1a92cc, notifyIn=@0x1a9258) at ../cac.cpp:150
#5  0x00097330 in ca_client_context::createNetworkContext (this=dwarf2_read_address: Corrupted DWARF expression.
) at ../ca_client_context.cpp:730
#6  0x0007148c in dbContext::createChannel (this=0x1a9420, guard=@0x7d9ff9bc, pName=0x1aca70 "ITW:ACCESS:CONSOLE1", notifyIn=@0x1acdc0, priority=0) at ../dbContext.cpp:104
#7  0x0009768c in ca_client_context::createChannel (this=0x1a9258, guard=@0x7d9ff9bc, pChannelName=0x1aca70 "ITW:ACCESS:CONSOLE1", chan=@0x1acdc0, pri=0)
     at ../ca_client_context.cpp:668
#8  0x000a3c04 in oldChannelNotify (this=0x1acdc0, guard=@0x7d9ff9bc, cacIn=@0x1a9258, pName=0x1aca70 "ITW:ACCESS:CONSOLE1", pConnCallBackIn=0x4fa70 <connectCallback>,
     pPrivateIn=0x1aca58, priority=0) at ../oldChannelNotify.cpp:54
#9  0x0008cf3c in ca_create_channel (name_str=0x1aca70 "ITW:ACCESS:CONSOLE1", conn_func=0x4fa70 <connectCallback>, puser=0x1aca58, priority=0, chanptr=0x1a94a8)
     at ../access.cpp:333
#10 0x0008d2a4 in ca_search_and_connect (name_str=0x1aca70 "ITW:ACCESS:CONSOLE1", chanptr=0x1a94a8, conn_func=0x4fa70 <connectCallback>, puser=0x1aca58) at ../access.cpp:297
#11 0x0004f620 in asCaTask () at ../asCa.c:184
#12 0x001149d4 in start_routine (arg=<value optimized out>) at ../../../src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.c:385
#13 0x2aacefb0 in pthread_start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#14 0x2aacefb0 in pthread_start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#15 0x2aacefb0 in pthread_start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0


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