Re: Big compat issue with a recent current (zfs + syscall)

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:14:48 UTC
On 8/21/25 11:16, Xin LI wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net <mailto:Alexander@leidinger.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I tried to update from -current as of 2025-08-11-154054 (CEST) to
>     2025-08-20-075320. I've updated the kernel and base, but no jail.
>     Result:
> 
>     1) Not all jails got up. For mysql I have the DB on a separate dataset,
>     I attach the dataset to the jail (grep dataset /etc/rc.d/jail) to be
>     able to manage it from within the jail. I got the message that the
>     dataset is already attached (first start of the jail at boot). When I
>     resolved this by simply not attaching the dataset, mysqld died with a
>     bad syscall.
> 
>     2) A lot of processes inside jails segfaulted.
> 
>     I then updated the jails from the build. More processes came up, but
>     some still died (e.g. php_fpm).
> 
>     At that point I reverted all back (this emails is handled via the jails
>     on this host). I still have the BE which causes issues, in case someone
>     needs to get some info out of it.
> 
>     I have not seen anything in UPDATING which suggests anything in this
>     regard.
> 
>     src.conf:
>     ---snip---
>     WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes
>     CFLAGS+=-DFTP_COMBINE_CWDS
>     MALLOC_PRODUCTION=yes
>     WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION=yes
>     WITHOUT_LLVM_ASSERTIONS=yes
>     KERNCONF=ANDROMEDA
>     WITH_RETPOLINE=yes
>     WITH_KERNEL_RETPOLINE=yes
>     WITH_RELRO=yes
>     WITH_BIND_NOW=yes
>     OPT_INIT_ALL=zero
>     WITH_ZEROREGS=yes
>     WITHOUT_CLEAN=yes
>     LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT=no
>     LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT=no
>     LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY=no
>     LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT=no
>     LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=no
>     LOADER_CD9660_SUPPORT=no
>     ---snip---
> 
>     src-env.conf:
>     ---snip---
>     WITH_META_MODE=yes
>     FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
>     ---snip---
> 
>     Bye,
>     Alexander.
> 
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> 
> Since you are using a custom kernel, is it possible that you didn't have COMPAT_FREEBSD14?  (Recently [gs]etgroups were changed, with compatibility syscalls moved to COMPAT_FREEBSD14).

I had wondered the same, but the use of 'segfault' gave me pause; these would be SIGSYS rather than SIGSEGV, but that could just be a minor terminology dispute.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans