[systemd-devel] OS shutting down after starting systemd-udevd.service through valgrind

[Amit anand]

Hi,

OS shutdown issue resolved after disabling recmanager and crashhander services.

Thanks,

On 4/3/20, Amit anand <amit.table at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to run systemd-udevd.service through valgrind for debugging
> some memory corruption issue.
>
> OS info                             :  64 bit Ubuntu OS. This is run as
> guest vm.
> RAM memory /swap size : 4GB RAM and 3 GB SWAP space.
> systemd version               : systemd v237.
>
> The command uname -a gives below result.
> Linux [xxx] 4.14.147-yocto-standard #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 30 18:52:38 UTC
> 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> note : [xxx] is masked text.
>
> Referred to link
> *https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030086.html
> <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030086.html>*
> .
> Followed below steps to run systemd-udev.service through valgrind.
>
> *step 1* :
> On terminal, command "systemctl edit --full systemd-udev.service"
>
> Prefixed it's ExecStart= parameter with an invocation of valgrind as below,
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/valgrind --tool=memcheck /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>
> *Step 2* :
> On terminal, command "systemctl daemon-reload"
>
> Step 3 :
> On terminal, command "systemctl restart systemd-udevd"
>
> Step 4 :
> On terminal, command ps command gave below result for udevd.
> [[0;1;32m●[[0m systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: [[0;1;32mactive (running)[[0m since Fri 2020-04-03 14:40:41 UTC;
> 9s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-udevd.service(8)
>            man:udev(7)
>  Main PID: 13179 (memcheck-amd64-)
>    Status: "Processing with 16 children at max"
>    Memory: 42.6M
>    CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-udevd.service
>            └─13179 /usr/bin/valgrind --tool=memcheck
> /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>
>
> Step 5 : Could see few lines of valgrind output with "systemctl status
> systemd-udev.service" command
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x4012BD1: ??? (in
> /lib/ld-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFCC8B:
> _dl_catch_exception (in /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x4012789: ??? (in
> /lib/ld-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFC2DC: ??? (in
> /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFCC8B:
> _dl_catch_exception (in /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFCCFE:
> _dl_catch_error (in /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFC3A6: ??? (in
> /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==    by 0x5BFC436:
> __libc_dlopen_mode (in /lib/libc-2.27.so)
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==  Address 0x650b1c0 is 16
> bytes after a block of size 32 in arena "client"
> Apr 03 14:40:41 [xxx] valgrind[13179]: ==13179==
>
> Note : [xxx] is masked text.
>
> However, guest vm (Ubuntu OS) shut down within 2 minutes of restarting
> systemd-udevd service.
> Attempt to reboot the guest vm ( Ubuntu OS) failed.
>
> Can you please guide/suggest how to prevent the Ubuntu OS from shutting
> down after restarting systemd-udevd.service with valgrind.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>