Package: libc6
Version: 2.7-18lenny2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Because of this bug in libc, ladvd (and perhaps other softwares) can
trigger an abort() in libc when network interfaces change (up/down,
create destroy) rapidly. I've noticed this with ladvd, and contacted
its developer to clarify the issue, thus please allow me to quote from a
conversation with Sten Spans - author and maintainer of the ladvd
software -, as this will describe the problem precisely:
Sten Spans
I think I've found the issue. When creating/removing a lot of
interfaces I'm able to trigger an abort in glibc's getifaddrs:
#0 0x7fd2727604b5 in *__GI_raise (sig=value optimized out)
at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1 0x7fd272763f50 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
#2 0x7fd27282e9d8 in map_newlink (ifap=value optimized out)
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c:320
#3 *__GI_getifaddrs (ifap=value optimized out)
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c:751
#4 0x00407987 in netif_fetch (ifc=value optimized out,
ifl=value optimized out, sysinfo=0x616c40, netifs=0x616c20)
at netif.c:140
This issue has already been fixed in upstream glibc a few weeks ago
with the following patch:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8b14c4cc38883032b8ebae50c9a8b3efd256483
It would be great if you could verify that this is indeed the issue.
The sad thing is that I'm not quite sure how to solve this without
patching glibc.
-
I was able reproduce this abort on ~180 machines with a lot of interfaces which
are going up/down at a great pace.
The attached patch is from upstream, and is the same as on the above
mentioned sourceware.org link.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.6-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
libc6 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
pn glibc-doc none (no description available)
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
ii locales 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: National Language (
-- debconf information:
glibc/upgrade: true
glibc/restart-failed:
glibc/restart-services:
From b8b14c4cc38883032b8ebae50c9a8b3efd256483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Drepper drep...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:36:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix changes to interface list during getifaddrs calls.
---
ChangeLog | 10 +++
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c | 55 +
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6420b9d..2b735fc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2010-04-03 Ulrich Drepper drep...@redhat.com
+
+ [BZ #11387]
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c (map_newlin): Don't abort on
+ unknown interface, return -1.
+ (getifaddrs_internal): Rename from getifaddrs. Handle errors in
+ map_newlink be returning -EAGAIN.
+ (getifaddrs): If -EAGAIN is returned from getifaddrs_internal try
+ again.
+
2010-03-25 Ryan S. Arnold r...@us.ibm.com
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getsysstats.c (next_line): Remove
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
index 149bd1c..84f223d 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* getifaddrs -- get names and addresses of all network interfaces
- Copyright (C) 2003-2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003-2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -315,17 +315,19 @@ map_newlink (int index, struct ifaddrs_storage *ifas, int
*map, int max)
else if (map[i] == index)
return i;
}
- /* This should never be reached. If this will be reached, we have
- a very big problem. */
- abort ();
+
+ /* This means interfaces changed inbetween the reading of the
+ RTM_GETLINK and RTM_GETADDR information. We have to repeat
+ everything. */
+ return -1;
}
/* Create a linked list of `struct ifaddrs' structures, one for each
network interface on the host machine. If successful, store the
list in *IFAP and return 0. On errors, return -1 and set `errno'. */
-int
-getifaddrs (struct ifaddrs **ifap)
+static int
+getifaddrs_internal (struct ifaddrs **ifap)
{
struct netlink_handle nh = { 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL };
struct netlink_res *nlp;
@@ -481,6 +483,13 @@ getifaddrs
