Bug 2798

Christophe

On 2 January 2017 at 22:02, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Christophe Milard
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have noticed that (rarely enough to be a pain to catch) odp_shm and
>> odpdrv_shm sress test sigfaults.
>> I saw it once last week, but that was enough to worry me as the common
>> part between the two tests is really the new memory allocator, _ishm.
>> So I ran a test over new year trying to catch the problem -or at least
>> one of then :-) - and I did caught some fish:
>>
>> Segfault can of course be due to very different bug, but still the
>> location of the segfault may tell something:
>> Here follows the baktrace:
>> Thread 14 "drvshmem_main" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> [Switching to Thread 0x7fffc3f2a700 (LWP 40073)]
>> 0x00007ffff73e59f8 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007ffff73e59f8 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #1  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #2  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #3  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #4  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #5  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #6  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #7  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #8  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
>> #9  0x00000000000003e8 in ?? ()
>> #10 0x0000000000000068 in ?? ()
>> #11 0x00007ffff754a6b0 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #12 0x00007ffff73dae78 in CRYPTO_malloc () from
>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #13 0x00007ffff73e29c8 in SHA1_Update () from
>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #14 0x00007ffff74931c0 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #15 0x00007ffff74935b5 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> #16 0x000000000040d038 in odp_random_data (buf=0x7fffc3f17ba3 "",
>> len=5, kind=ODP_RANDOM_BASIC) at odp_crypto.c:1015
>> #17 0x0000000000407367 in run_test_stress (arg=0x7fffffffdc58) at 
>> drvshmem.c:599
>> #18 0x000000000040a6ae in odpthread_run_start_routine (arg=0x665890
>> <thread_tbl>) at linux.c:275
>> #19 0x00007ffff6d146ba in start_thread (arg=0x7fffc3f2a700) at
>> pthread_create.c:333
>> #20 0x00007ffff6a4a82d in clone () at
>> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:109
>>
>> That triggered the following question:
>> The ODP threads used to stress the memory allocator during the test
>> use odp_random_data() to generate random allocation sizes (and a few
>> other random things). My assumption was that being an ODP basic block
>> it would be odpthread safe (right now odp_thread = pthread). Is it?
>> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Libcrypto_API#Thread_Safety says
>> "OpenSSL currently is thread-NOT-safe by default"...
>>
>> Are we hitting this limitation here?
>
> It would appear so. Some research shows that OpenSSL is by default not
> thread-safe. Please open a bug for this so it can be properly
> investigated. I'm not sure if this may affect the various ODP crypto
> routines as well since by default odp-linux is using OpenSSL.
>
>>
>> Christophe.

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