Re: Double free() in libc or gdb ?

From: Alexandre Martins <alexandre.martins_at_netasq.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:40:12 +0100
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 13:17:52 Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:08:40AM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote:
> > On Monday 12 March 2012 18:55:55 Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:50:33PM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm currently having some trouble with the dynamic loader.
> > > > 
> > > > I have the libc compilled with "MALLOC_DEBUG" flag to detect double
> > > > free. When i run this piece of code (attached file) thought GDB, i
> > > > have this assertion :
> > > > 
> > > > Assertion failed: ((run->regs_mask[elm] & (1U << bit)) == 0),
> > > > function arena_run_reg_dalloc, file
> > > > /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c, line 2543.
> > > > 
> > > > But when i run the same binary without GDB, no assert.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm very confused. Can you help me to debug that ?
> > > 
> > > There is no attachment.  Put the source somewhere on web.
> > 
> > Sorry, I'll past code here :
> > 
> > first.c:
> > ____________________
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > void print_name(void)
> > {
> > 
> >         printf("I'm " __FILE__ " at line %d\n", __LINE__);
> > 
> > }
> > ____________________
> > 
> > second.c
> > ____________________
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > void second_name(void)
> > {
> > 
> >         printf("I'm " __FILE__ " at line %d\n", __LINE__);
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > void print_name(void)
> > {
> > 
> >         printf("I'm " __FILE__ " at line %d\n", __LINE__);
> > 
> > }
> > ____________________
> > 
> > main.c
> > ____________________
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <dlfcn.h>
> > 
> > extern void print_name(void);
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> > 
> >         void (*second_name)(void);
> >         void *handle;
> >         int count = 0;
> >         
> >         while(42)
> >         {
> >         
> >                 print_name();
> >                 handle = dlopen("second.so", RTLD_NOW);
> >                 print_name();
> >                 if (handle != NULL)
> >                 {
> >                 
> >                         second_name = dlsym(handle, "second_name");
> >                         if (second_name != NULL)
> >                         {
> >                         
> >                                 printf("second : ");
> >                                 second_name();
> >                         
> >                         }
> >                         dlclose(handle);
> >                 
> >                 }
> >                 else
> >                 
> >                         fprintf(stderr, "Error : %s\n", dlerror());
> >         
> >         }
> > 
> > }
> > ____________________
> > 
> > Compilation and execution :
> > 
> > gcc -shared -O0 -g second.c -o second.so
> > gcc -shared -O0 -g first.c -o libfirst.so
> > gcc -O0 -g toto.c -lfirst -L. -o test
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD
> > gdb ./test
> 
> First, the libc malloc is not used inside rtld, so assertion which you
> see points to somebody else. This somebody could be the stdio in your
> example, or it could be gdb.
> 
> On the HEAD r232862, I indeed get the assertion, that obviously comes
> from gdb. So this is a bug in gdb. Probably, try devel/gdb from ports,
> I hardly can help you with gdb bug.

Dear,

Thank for your response.

Two other thing
 - The process consume memory, but there is no allocation in my code. Maybe a 
leak in the libc ?
 - My kernel have crashed after some minute of leak (i have removed printf for 
better perf on the loop). Maybe unrelated, but ...

Regards,

-- 
Alexandre Martins
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Received on Tue Mar 13 2012 - 11:40:18 UTC

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