Re: [vpp-dev] vpp deadlock - syslog in signal handler

2017-10-17 Thread Dave Barach (dbarach)
: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:18 AM To: vpp-dev <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> Subject: [vpp-dev] vpp deadlock - syslog in signal handler Hi, I have encountered a deadlock in vpp on the raising of a memory alloc exception. The signal is caught by unix_signal_handler(), which determines this is a

[vpp-dev] vpp deadlock - syslog in signal handler

2017-10-17 Thread Gabriel Ganne
Hi, I have encountered a deadlock in vpp on the raising of a memory alloc exception. The signal is caught by unix_signal_handler(), which determines this is a fatal error and then syslogs the error message. The problem is that syslog() then tries to allocate a scratchpad memory, and