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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2006 20:18:56 -0400
From:      Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, m m <needacoder@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: improper handling of dlpened's C++/atexit() code?
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 06:50:55 +0300
Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 06:22:34PM -0400, m m wrote:
> > n 5/21/06, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > >> >0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > >> >(gdb) bt
> > >> >#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > >> >#1  0x294c0ad8 in __do_global_dtors_aux () from
> > >> >/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so
> > >> >#2  0x294c1d4c in _fini () from
> > >> >/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so
> > >> >#3  0x280b4c80 in ?? ()
> > >> >#4  0x280aaab8 in ?? () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> > >> >#5  0xbfbfe6e8 in ?? ()
> > >> >#6  0x2808dca6 in objlist_call_fini (list=3D0x280a96d8) at
> > >> >/usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:1336
> > >> >#7  0x2808e1d4 in rtld_exit ()
> > >> >at /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:1528 #8  0x281d58ea in
> > >> >__cxa_finalize (dso=3D0x0)
> > >> >at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/atexit.c:184 #9  0x281d55ba in exit
> > >> >(status=3D0) at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.c:69 #10 0x0805d0cb
> > >> >in clean_child_exit () #11 0x0805ea77 in just_die ()
> > >> >#12 0x0805ea9a in usr1_handler ()
> > >> >#13 0xbfbfffb4 in ?? ()
> > >> >#14 0x0000001e in ?? ()
> > >> >#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > >> >#16 0xbfbfe7c0 in ?? ()
> > >> >#17 0x00000002 in ?? ()
> > >> >#18 0x0805ea80 in just_die ()
> > >> >#19 0x0806011e in child_main ()
> > >> >#20 0x080607de in make_child ()
> > >> >#21 0x08060868 in startup_children ()
> > >> >#22 0x08060e81 in standalone_main ()
> > >> >#23 0x08061702 in main ()
> > >
> > >Could you, please, put somewhere:
> > >1. /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so
> > >2. output of lsof -p <some apache child process pid> for apache
> > >running in your usual configuration.
> > >
> > >Also, could you run the apache with
> > >LD_PRELOAD=3D/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 and report whether the problem
> > >persists ?
> >=20
> > Konstantin,
> >  Thank you for looking into this.
> >=20
> > lsof: http://www.savefile.com/files/6494253
> > Syslog.so: http://www.savefile.com/files/2163369
> >=20
> >  Although it's not an indicator of certainty (I have had it exit
> > cleanly in the past), it appears that running Apache with LD_PRELOAD
> > of libstdc++ does allow it to exit cleanly.  Please let me know how
> > I can further assist.  If it would make things easier - I can
> > provide access to a jail on this machine which exhibits the same
> > behavior.
>=20
> Ok, I have a theory how it happens. Investigation of your instance
> of Syslog.so shows that crash happens at the following code of
> /usr/lib/crtbeginS.o:
>=20
> 282:  if (__deregister_frame_info)
> 283:      __deregister_frame_info (__EH_FRAME_BEGIN__);
>=20
> (this comes in from contrib/gcc/crtstuff.c, lines 282-283).
> Symbol __deregister_frame_info is weak and undefined in all your
> DSOs except libstdc++.so.5. This symbol provides part of the C++
> runtime support for exception handling, and reasonably included
> from c++ runtime support library.
>=20
> Both lines 282 and 283 produce dynamic relocations in final DSO,
> but line 282 implies R_386_GLOB_DAT, and 283 - R386_JUMP_SLOT (for
> PLT). First relocation is resolved immediately on DSO load, second
> one is resolved on demand.
>=20
> My theory is that, at the time of loading Syslog.so,  libstdc++.so.5
> is loaded in the process, resulting in first relocation being
> satisfied by rtld immediately.  But, at the time exit() processing
> comes to _fini() function of Syslog.so, libstdc++.so.5 is unloaded.
> And weak PLT relocation is resolved to 0. As result we got the
> frame #0 from your trace.
>=20
> This theory is confirmed by presence of libstdc++ in lsof output.
> Please, check that it does not show up at the time of crash dump
> by using "show shared" gdb command on crash dump.
>=20
> Short-time fix is to use LD_PRELOAD hack. The real solution
> would be to mark the libstdc++ DSO as unloadable and
> implement support for unloadable DSO in rtld (BTW, I think
> this is also needed for threading libraries libpthread and libthr
> for the same reason). I know that glibc dynamic loader has support
> for this feature.
>=20
> P.S. Apache seems to call exit(3) from the signal handler. This is
> wrong.
Sounds very plausible to me. This should be fixed once we have shared
libgcc_s.so.

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Alexander Kabaev

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