[systemd-devel] Memory leak in systemd on i686

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Michael Tremer
<michael.tremer at ipfire.org> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have got a very weird problem and I would appreciate your help.
>
> Here at IPFire, we are running systemd and compiling it for four
> different architectures: x86_64, i686, armv7hl and armv5tel. It runs
> perfectly on x86_64 and the ARM architectures, but we are experiencing a
> very weird crash on i686:
>
> Right when the system boots up, the PaX-enabled kernel panics because it
> apparently has found a memory leak in systemd. You can see the message
> that the kernel dumps in the attached screenshot and Stefan also got me
> an strace dump. In order to make that dump, he had to manually start
> systemd on the console.
>
> The last version of systemd that we know of that starts properly up is
> systemd 188. All versions including 197 crash like this.
>
> As I don't have any idea where to start to search for this bug and
> searching through the (massive amount of) commits did not bring me any
> further, I hope you can help me.

Would it be possible to just git bisect this? It should be about 11
bisect steps to nail it down.

Auke