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Bug 200160
| Summary: | prelink segfaults on an attempt to dereference NULL pointer | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
| Component: | prelink | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | nicolas.mailhot |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-07-29 19:42:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 150223, 150224 | ||
Description of problem: After assorted packages got updated the first run of 'prelink' with '--quick' flag bombs as follows: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/sbin/prelink -av -Rm -q warning: shared library handler failed to enable breakpoint Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. deps_cmp (A=0x7fff9010b968, B=0x7fff9010c848) at cache.c:344 344 if (a->type == ET_NONE && b->type != ET_NONE) (gdb) bt #0 deps_cmp (A=0x7fff9010b968, B=0x7fff9010c848) at cache.c:344 #1 0x000000000043d58b in msort_with_tmp () #2 0x000000000043d4eb in msort_with_tmp () #3 0x000000000043d4d5 in msort_with_tmp () #4 0x000000000043d702 in qsort () #5 0x0000000000400fbd in prelink_load_cache () at cache.c:465 #6 0x000000000040e0c0 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fff90110978) at main.c:390 #7 0x0000000000436cb0 in __libc_start_main () #8 0x00000000004001b9 in _start () (gdb) p a $1 = (struct prelink_entry *) 0x0 (gdb) p b $2 = (struct prelink_entry *) 0x0 Precisely that combination of circumstances and flags is pretty likely when /etc/cron.daily/prelink is firing up. Once prelink was run without '--quick' then caches are redone and a case with two "prelink_entry" pointers beeing NULL does not happen (or at least is much harder to hit). Adding, as the first check in deps_cmp() in cache.c: if (a == NULL && b == NULL) return 0; should solve the matter. We do not really care much about such entries in any case. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): prelink-0.3.9-1 How reproducible: always, or at least with a pretty good chance of "success", in circumstances described above. Additional info: This bug was originally described in comments to bug #196941 on a mistaken assumption that this is another manifestation of a bug reported there. Skipping -q flag in /etc/cron.daily/prelink should serve as a workaround until updates are available.