Re: Socket-related problem in x86_64 Kernel (2.6.16.53-0.8-smp)?

[Ulrich Windl]

On 11 Sep 2007 at 15:01, Eric Dumazet wrote:

[...]
> > Also note that the i586 (32-bit, non-SMP) kernel does not have that problem.
> > Linux version 2.6.16.53-0.8-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 
> > (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Fri Aug 31 13:07:27 UTC 2007
> 
> Are you sure ?

Not any more ;-)

> 
> segfaulting are sysloged only on 64bits kernel.
> 
> Maybe your slapd/hscan processes are doing bad things, that make them 
> core dump without notice on a 32bits kernel.

I'm using the senddmail milter library that does the socket communication. So any 
bad things should be searched there.

I tend to think that the same program when being compiled as a 32-bit executable 
does not cause these segfaults on a 64 bit kernel.

I also tried to use ksymoops to get a disassembly of the corresponding kernel 
code, but the result did not look good to me.

Is there a deeper reason why the kernel does not provide more info (like a call 
trace) on segfaults?

Will an strace of the program (multi-threaded, unfortunately, just as slapd (most 
likely)) be helpful?

When I tried it for slapd, the (rest of the) strace was:
9931  socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
9931  connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(427), sin_addr=inet_addr("12
7.0.0.1")}, 16) = 0
9931  setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVLOWAT, [18], 4) = 0
9931  setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDLOWAT, [18], 4) = -1 ENOPROTOOPT (Protocol
 not available)
9931  mmap(NULL, 1434435584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1
, 0) = 0x2aaaaae32000
9931  --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

Regards,
Ulrich

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