FreeBSD 5.3 crash (core with debug symbols available)

[Doug White]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dariusz Kulinski wrote:

> Hello Doug,
>
> Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 10:50:19 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> > Looks like it ran over a spammed thread, but I'll want to see the fault
> >> > address. Bets on whether its 0xdeadc0de+offset?
> >> 0xdeadc0de, huh? :)
> > free()d memory regions get filled with 0xdeadc0de to hunt down
> > use-after-free conditions.
>
> Ok, I thought it was one of developer jokes =)
>
> > Thats what I want :-)
>
> > OK, it wasn't deadc0de, so can you load the crashdump up, go down to the
> > sigtd() frame, and "print *td"?  It'll be a huge spew.
>
> (kgdb) frame 20
> #20 0xc04e9d3f in sigtd (p=0xc16948d4, sig=14, prop=129) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1581
> 1581   if (td->td_waitset != NULL &&
> (kgdb) print *td
> $1 = {td_proc = 0xc16948d4, td_ksegrp = 0xc26b9310, td_plist = {tqe_next = 0xc1b48190, tqe_prev = 0xc1b95198}, td_kglist = {
>     tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0xc26b931c}, td_slpq = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0xc1794b80}, td_lockq = {tqe_next = 0x0,
>     tqe_prev = 0x0}, td_runq = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0xc26b9324}, td_selq = {tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0xc17c31c0},
>   td_sleepqueue = 0x0, td_turnstile = 0xc15d5dc0, td_tid = 100081, td_flags = 8, td_inhibitors = 6, td_pflags = 8,
>   td_dupfd = 0, td_wchan = 0xd12bfc20, td_wmesg = 0xc06cef0b "sigwait", td_lastcpu = 0 '\0', td_oncpu = 255 '˙',
>   td_locks = 0, td_blocked = 0x0, td_ithd = 0x0, td_lockname = 0x0, td_contested = {lh_first = 0x0}, td_sleeplocks = 0x0,
>   td_intr_nesting_level = 0, td_pinned = 0, td_mailbox = 0x9903010, td_ucred = 0xc2b41b00, td_standin = 0x0, td_prticks = 0,
>   td_upcall = 0xc17c0510, td_sticks = 2210, td_uuticks = 0, td_usticks = 0, td_intrval = 0, td_oldsigmask = {__bits = {0, 0,
>       0, 0}}, td_sigmask = {__bits = {159751, 0, 0, 0}}, td_siglist = {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, td_waitset = 0xd12bfc64,
>   td_umtx = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}, td_generation = 376536, td_sigstk = {ss_sp = 0x0, ss_size = 0, ss_flags = 0},
>   td_kflags = 0, td_xsig = 0, td_profil_addr = 0, td_profil_ticks = 0, td_base_pri = 104 'h', td_priority = 104 'h',
>   td_pcb = 0xd12bfda0, td_state = TDS_INHIBITED, td_retval = {0, 137620480}, td_slpcallout = {c_links = {sle = {
>         sle_next = 0x0}, tqe = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0xc1cd68e4}}, c_time = 216540257, c_arg = 0xc17c3190, c_func = 0,
>     c_flags = 8}, td_frame = 0xd12bfd48, td_kstack_obj = 0xc1796318, td_kstack = 3509313536, td_kstack_pages = 2,
>   td_altkstack_obj = 0x0, td_altkstack = 0, td_altkstack_pages = 0, td_critnest = 1, td_md = {md_savecrit = 582},
>   td_sched = 0xc17c32e4}


This is quite helpful, thanks!  It appears the thread had called
sigtimedwait() and the timeout fired. The clock ithread goes to whack the
process with SIGALRM and checks if its waiting in sigtimedwait()
specifically.  That info is coded into the td_waitset member of struct
thread, which get set from the user. All of the frontends provide the set
from a stack variable.

later, in kern_sigtimedwait()...

926         td->td_waitset = &waitset;
927         error = msleep(&ps, &p->p_mtx, PPAUSE|PCATCH, "sigwait", hz);

So now a pointer to stack variable is in the thread. Later on sigtd()
comes along and wants to dereference it and that stack page isn't
available according to the VM system and that trips the panic.

Some more exploration is necessary. Can you make the crashdump and debug
kernel available?  Also, what was running when this panic tripped? ("info
threads" in kgdb may be useful.)

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