[OmniOS-discuss] PowerDNS recursor SIGSEGV

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Mon Dec 7 15:07:17 UTC 2015


On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 06:42:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote:
> I wonder how the 014-compiled binary performs on 016?  More accurately, I
> wonder if any gcc-51 compiled libs are off?

I'll try it out, but I expect it to work just fine - or die for a totally
different reason.  This is because the SIGSEGV is caused by this instruction:

_ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x14:movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%ebp)

The _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi function comes from a boost header and
it ends up in the pdns_recursor executable itself.  The executable is pretty
boring as far as libs are concerned:

# ldd /usr/sbin/pdns_recursor 
	libresolv.so.2 =>	 /lib/libresolv.so.2
	libsocket.so.1 =>	 /lib/libsocket.so.1
	libnsl.so.1 =>	 /lib/libnsl.so.1
	libstdc++.so.6 =>	 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
	libm.so.2 =>	 /lib/libm.so.2
	librt.so.1 =>	 /lib/librt.so.1
	libgcc_s.so.1 =>	 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
	libpthread.so.1 =>	 /lib/libpthread.so.1
	libc.so.1 =>	 /lib/libc.so.1
	libmd.so.1 =>	 /lib/libmd.so.1
	libmp.so.2 =>	 /lib/libmp.so.2

gcc 4.8/4.9 compiled powerdns doesn't use this instruction at all.  (The SEGV
is because the memory operand is 8-byte aligned instead of the required 16-byte
alignment.  This causes #gp which turns into a SIGSEGV via the normal trap code
in the kernel.)

Jeff.

> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> 
> > On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 03:40:30PM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 10:26:00AM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote:
> >>> One other weird thing to try -- build powerdns with the Illumos gcc4.  If
> >>> the gcc5 bug affects powerdns, that'd isolate it.  If gcc5 affects some
> >>> non Illumos library, gcc4 won't help and you'll still segv.
> >>> 
> >>> If gcc4 Illumos can't build it,
> >> 
> >> The powerdns devs use a lot of c++11 which makes 4.4.4 *waaay* too old.
> >> Apparently, 4.8 should be good enough.
> >> 
> >>> you could try 014 and its gcc481.
> >> 
> >> Yeah, I'll try that.
> > 
> > Ok.  014 produces the same exact instructions as OI Hipster.  I wonder if
> > gcc 5 changed some processor default.
> > 
> > Jeff.
> > 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Jeff.
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Dan
> >>> 
> >>> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> >>> 
> >>>> On Dec 6, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> I compiled powerdns recursor [1] on 016, but I'm running into an occasional
> >>>> SIGSEGV.  The SIGSEGV is because of insufficiently aligned memory operand to an
> >>>> instruction.  (See the powerdns bug I filed for this [2].) The SIGSEGV actually
> >>>> happens in the deque code which comes from boost (1.58.0 in this case).
> >>>> 
> >>>> Now, the weird thing... I compiled the same powerdns source with the same
> >>>> version of boost on OI Hipster and OmniOS 016.  Hipster uses gcc 4.9.3,
> >>>> OmniOS 016 uses 5.1.  The function that causes the SEGV on 016 looks totally
> >>>> different between the two distros so I haven't see it die on my laptop.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Has anyone seen any strange SIGSEGVs in boost using software?  I hope it isn't
> >>>> some sort of gcc bug.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Jeff.
> >>>> 
> >>>> P.S. PowerDNS uses {get,set,swap}context, so I haven't ruled out a stack
> >>>>    alignment bug on their end.
> >>>> 
> >>>> [1] https://www.powerdns.com/
> >>>> [2] https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/3002
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> OmniOS 016:
> >>>> 
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi:     pushl  %ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+1:   movl   %esp,%ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+3:   pushl  %ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+4:   subl   $0x1c,%esp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+7:   movl   0xc(%ebp),%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0xa: movl   0x8(%ebp),%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0xd: movdqu (%eax),%xmm0
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x11:movl   0x10(%ebp),%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x14:movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%ebp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x18:negl   %eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1a:pushl  %eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1b:leal   -0x18(%ebp),%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1e:pushl  %eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1f:call   -0x94    <_ZNSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEpLEi>
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x24:movl   (%eax),%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x26:addl   $0x10,%esp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x29:movl   %edx,(%ebx)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x2b:movl   0x4(%eax),%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x2e:movl   %edx,0x4(%ebx)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x31:movl   0x8(%eax),%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x34:movl   0xc(%eax),%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x37:movl   %edx,0x8(%ebx)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3a:movl   %eax,0xc(%ebx)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3d:movl   %ebx,%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3f:movl   -0x4(%ebp),%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x42:leave  
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x43:ret    $0x4
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> OI Hipster:
> >>>> 
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi:     pushl  %ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+1:   pushl  %edi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+2:   pushl  %esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+3:   pushl  %ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+4:   subl   $0x14,%esp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+7:   movl   0x2c(%esp),%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0xb: movl   0x30(%esp),%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0xf: movl   0x28(%esp),%eax
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x13:movl   (%edx),%esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x15:movl   0x4(%edx),%ecx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x18:movl   0x8(%edx),%edi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1b:movl   0xc(%edx),%ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x1e:movl   %esi,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x20:subl   %ebx,%esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x22:subl   %ecx,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x24:subl   %ebx,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x26:cmpl   $0x1ff,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x2c:movl   %esi,(%esp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x2f:jbe    +0x21    <_ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x52>
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x31:movl   %edx,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x33:sarl   $0x9,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x36:testl  %edx,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x38:jle    +0x56    <_ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x90>
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3a:leal   0x0(%ebp,%ebx,4),%ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3e:movl   0x0(%ebp),%ecx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x41:shll   $0x9,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x44:subl   %ebx,%edx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x46:leal   (%ecx,%edx),%esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x49:leal   0x200(%ecx),%edi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x4f:movl   %esi,(%esp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x52:movl   %edi,0x4(%esp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x56:movd   (%esp),%xmm0
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x5b:movl   %ecx,(%esp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x5e:movd   0x4(%esp),%xmm1
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x64:movl   %ebp,0x4(%esp)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x68:movd   (%esp),%xmm3
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x6d:punpckldq %xmm3,%xmm0
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x71:movd   0x4(%esp),%xmm2
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x77:punpckldq %xmm2,%xmm1
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x7b:punpcklqdq %xmm1,%xmm0
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x7f:movdqu %xmm0,(%eax)
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x83:addl   $0x14,%esp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x86:popl   %ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x87:popl   %esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x88:popl   %edi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x89:popl   %ebp
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x8a:ret    $0x4
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x8d:leal   0x0(%esi),%esi
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x90:movl   %edx,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x92:shrl   $0x9,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x95:orl    $0xff800000,%ebx
> >>>> _ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x9b:jmp    -0x63    <_ZNKSt15_Deque_iteratorIcRcPcEmiEi+0x3a>
> >>>> 
> >>>> -- 
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> >>>>       - Linus Torvalds
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> >> 
> >> -- 
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> > 
> > -- 
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