problems with cvsup on FreeBSD 9 snapshot 201101

[Holger Kipp]

Ah, ok.

Do we have a compiler switch to force stack alignment to 16-Byte-boundaries? Otherwise I am really concerned that we might have similar wrong pieces of code lurking unnoticed in other binaries as well :-/

My cvsup binary is:

# file /usr/local/bin/cvsup
/usr/local/bin/cvsup: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900029), stripped

Best regards,
Holger

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From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] on behalf of Eric McCorkle [eric at shadowsun.net]
Sent: 15 June 2011 16:24
To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: problems with cvsup on FreeBSD 9 snapshot 201101

On 6/15/11 8:23 AM, Holger Kipp wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I had installed FreeBSD 9 amd64 from snapshot (ISO-image) located here:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201101/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201101-amd64-dvd1.iso
>
>
> Today I wanted to cvsup to a later date to upgrade to ZFS v28
> and compiled port /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui without problems.
>
> Starting freshly compiled cvsup then gives me
>
> "Illegal Instruction"
>
> This error seems to be identical to
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-September/020083.html
>

I've gotten the same problem, and managed to diagnose it.  The problem
actually isn't an illegal instruction, but a stack misalignment.  If you
load it in gdb, it will die with SIGSEGV somewhere in libc.so.7, on a
callq instruction.  This is because callq needs the stack to be 16-byte
aligned, and it's not for some reason.

As for why it's not aligned, I don't know.

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University of Massachusetts
Research Intern, IBM Research
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