Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
Not sure if this is a kernel problem. Isn't test suite using
LD_PRELOAD to pull in additional libraries which could cause
such a breakage?
You're right, it could be a library problem. The test suite's LD_PRELOAD library
just returns what the C library gives it, though. Perhaps LD_PRELOAD usage is
messing up malloc on your platform, so that it returns improperly-aligned
pointers? You might try something like the attached patch to see whether the C
library is doing that.
And wouldn't "rm" show any failure during normal use?
Yes, one would think so.
In any case, this is not sounding like a bug in coreutils itself.
diff --git a/tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh b/tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh
index 75fa339db..8d74aaefd 100755
--- a/tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh
+++ b/tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ struct dirent *readdir (DIR *dirp)
return NULL;
}
+ if ((long) (d) % _Alignof (struct dirent) != 0)
+ abort ();
/* Flag that LD_PRELOAD and above functions work. */
static int count = 1;
if (count == 1)
