On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:14:06 +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > On 19/10/16 09:18, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:47 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > >> On Debian's new arm64 nodes (acker and aagaard) ulogd2 always crashes > >> with SIGSEGV some time after startup. This does not happen on our other > >> arm64 nodes (asachi, arm-arm-03, arm-arm-04). Backtrace below: > > > > According to aurel32 this might fix it: > > > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/680773/ > > > > We are indeed running Linux 4.8 on the affected machines. > > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for the detailed bug report. It does appear that the cause of the > crash is due to being fed garbage by the kernel, and upgrading to a > later kernel when that comes along should fix things. > > I'll try to raise this upstream to see whether this can be worked around > in ulogd2 at all, but I suspect there's little that can be done within > ulogd2 itself. > > Have you raised this bug against src:linux as well? If not do let me > know, or feel free to clone this bug yourself. > I think this should just be reassigned, there's not much point working around a kernel bug.
Cheers, Julien