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Hi everyone,
I've encountered what appears to be a bug in the following situation:
* an application is being started by a boot script.
* the application returns a bad result from application:start/2.
What follows is either a very, very big crash dump file (erl_dump.crash)
or beam.smp crashing with signal 11 (SEGV).
I discovered it on R14A but it also appears in R13B04. I've replicated it
on both Ubuntu Linux and Mac OSX (using Erlang built from source). My
erl reports:
Erlang R14A (erts-5. [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0]
[hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Here's a Makefile that will replicate the problem (on my system it
happens every time) (sorry if the line breaks get messed up):
- ---begin---
.PHONY: crash
crash: foo.beam foo.app
erl -noshell -eval " \
FileContents = {release, \
{\"foo_rel\", \"A\"}, \
{erts, erlang:system_info(version)}, \
[{A, V} || {A, _, V} <- application:loaded_applications()] ++
[{foo, \"1\"}]}, \
{ok, Fd} = file:open(\"foo.rel\", [write]), \
ok = io:fwrite(Fd, \"~p.~n\", [FileContents]), \
ok = file:close(Fd), \
init:stop()."
erl -noshell -eval "ok = systools:make_script(\"foo\",
[no_module_tests]), init:stop()."
erl -noshell +B -boot ./foo
foo.erl:
@echo "-module(foo)." > $@
@echo "-export([start/2])." >> $@
@echo "start(_, _) -> fubar." >> $@
foo.app:
@echo '{application,foo, [{description,""}, {vsn,"1"}, {modules,[foo]},
{registered,[]}, {applications,[kernel,stdlib]}, {mod,{foo,[]}}]}.' >
foo.app
foo.beam: foo.erl
erlc $<
- ---end---
(Just save it as Makefile and run make.)
I investigated the core file produced by Erlang and it seems to be
uninitialized data causing dump_attributes (in break.c) to overrun the
ptr argument.
I don't have a proposed fix but it might help to know that adding these
lines to beam_load.c:
stp->code[MI_ATTR_SIZE] = 0;
stp->code[MI_COMPILE_SIZE] = 0;
To read_code_header() near line 1380 and these similar lines:
code[MI_ATTR_SIZE] = 0;
code[MI_COMPILE_SIZE] = 0;
To erts_make_stub_module() near line 5200 prevent the crash.
Peace,
Sam.
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