[systemd-devel] systemd segfaulting after commit 877d54e9b09e093c2102f519a84e2a52637ae035

[Khem Raj]

On Sunday, September 23, 2012, Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Colin Walters wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 16:34 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>>> git bisect tells me that its happening due to
>>>
>>> commit 877d54e9b09e093c2102f519a84e2a52637ae035
>>> Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
>>> Date:   Fri Aug 24 22:21:20 2012 +0200
>>>
>>>     journal: generate structured journal messages for a number of events
>>>
>>>
>>> I am using gcc 4.7.2 + glibc 2.16 + binutils 2.22 + kernel 3.4.10
>>
>> I get this too in GNOME-OSTree (fork of Poky edison, gcc 4.6, eglibc
>> 2.13).
>>
>> I had been thinking it was
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47025 [...]
>
> I think it's
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55213
>
> The reporter explains clearly that the new journald code invokes
undefined behavior in relation to vsnprintf() and vasprintf(): it may work
on some systems but in general cannot be relied upon to work, and it
segfaults on some systems. The reporter also provides a patch.
>


Yes that patch fixes my problem
> --
> Allin Cottrell
> Department of Economics
> Wake Forest University, NC
>
>
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