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Bug 1146749

Summary: [abrt] systemd: _xbegin(): systemd killed by SIGILL
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd>
Component: microcode_ctlAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: arapov, codonell, johannbg, jonathan, jsynacek, khchanel, kparal, lnykryn, mikhail.v.gavrilov, msekleta, sangu.fedora, s, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Hardware: x86_64   
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URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/2bf309e06197a8111107a68f000d6a00af273d61
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File: cgroup
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File: core_backtrace
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File: dso_list
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Description Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:16 UTC
Description of problem:
Problem seems to have started after installing microcode_ctl 2.1-6.fc20. This is on a Haswell system and this update probably disabled TSX support.

Version-Release number of selected component:
systemd-208-21.fc20

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.3
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        (systemd) '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' ''
crash_function: _xbegin
environ:        
executable:     /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
kernel:         3.16.3-200.fc20.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            0

Truncated backtrace:
Thread no. 1 (10 frames)
 #0 _xbegin at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/hle.h:53
 #1 __lll_lock_elision at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/elision-lock.c:56
 #2 __pthread_mutex_lock at ../nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:91
 #3 _nss_files_getpwnam_r at nss_files/files-pwd.c:32
 #4 __getpwnam_r at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:266
 #5 pam_modutil_getpwnam at pam_modutil_getpwnam.c:56
 #6 pam_modutil_user_in_group_nam_nam at pam_modutil_ingroup.c:84
 #7 parse_config_file at pam_limits.c:805
 #8 pam_sm_open_session at pam_limits.c:1058
 #9 _pam_dispatch_aux at pam_dispatch.c:110

Comment 1 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:19 UTC
Created attachment 941341 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:20 UTC
Created attachment 941342 [details]
File: cgroup

Comment 3 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:21 UTC
Created attachment 941343 [details]
File: core_backtrace

Comment 4 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:22 UTC
Created attachment 941344 [details]
File: dso_list

Comment 5 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:22 UTC
Created attachment 941345 [details]
File: exploitable

Comment 6 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:23 UTC
Created attachment 941346 [details]
File: limits

Comment 7 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:24 UTC
Created attachment 941347 [details]
File: maps

Comment 8 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:25 UTC
Created attachment 941348 [details]
File: open_fds

Comment 9 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:26 UTC
Created attachment 941349 [details]
File: proc_pid_status

Comment 10 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:51:27 UTC
Created attachment 941350 [details]
File: var_log_messages

Comment 11 Robert Hancock 2014-09-26 01:56:21 UTC
Changing component to microcode_ctl as the update to version 2.1-6 is what introduced the issue. It seems to be the one described in the Debian bug report I added a reference to.

Since this update seems to disable TSX instructions, I am assuming that the solution is that this update can't be installed while software that could be using TSX is running. Or the use of TSX instructions has to be turned off entirely.

Comment 12 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-09-26 02:20:37 UTC
See the discussion on https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-11178/microcode_ctl-2.1-8.fc21 .

Comment 13 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-09-26 02:57:34 UTC
*** Bug 1146311 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-09-26 02:57:42 UTC
*** Bug 1146245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Carlos O'Donell 2014-09-27 16:50:19 UTC
The tools team is disabling TSX support in glibc because of this issue.

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146967

So now dracut and kernel do early update, and glibc disables TSX if you can't or don't wnat to upgrade your kernel.

Comment 16 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-11-02 21:23:10 UTC
*** Bug 1142125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 18 Robert Hancock 2015-05-30 00:10:43 UTC
This is fixed in 1146967 so marking as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1146967 ***