[systemd-devel] How to debug occasional hashmap corruption?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Di, 06.11.18 11:57, juice (juice at swagman.org) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> During the past half year I have seen systemd dump core three times due
> to what I suspect a hashmap corruption or race.
> Each time it looks a bit different and is triggered by different things
> but it somehow centers on hashmap operations.
> 
> What would be the prefered way to debug this? I cannot add huge logging
> as this is something that happens once in a blue moon and always in
> different compute nodes.
> Is there some way I could easily test it by increasing the chance of such
> corruption/race happening?

This looks very much like a memory corruption of some sorts and
valgrind should be the tool of choice to track that down.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat