CLANG 3.2 breaks security/pam_ssh_agent_auth on stable/9

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 18:01:02 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2013-01-16 13:05, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>>
>> I just updated my stable/9 system after clang3.2 was added. My system
>> is amd64, both world and kernel are compiled with clang3.2 and the
>> default compiler is clang. I'm tracking the sources with GIT and the
>> version I have corresponds to SVN revision r245451.
>>
>> Everything else seems to work but the pam authentication module
>> security/pam_ssh_agent_auth segfaults immediately.
>
> ...
>
>> #0  0x0000000800ef2070 in strsvis () from /lib/libc.so.7
>> #1  0x0000000800ef2584 in strvis () from /lib/libc.so.7
>> #2  0x0000000800ef25e5 in strnvis () from /lib/libc.so.7
>> #3  0x0000000801c0e2e7 in do_log () from
>> /usr/local/lib/pam_ssh_agent_auth.so
>> #4  0x0000000801c0e4ff in logit () from
>> /usr/local/lib/pam_ssh_agent_auth.so
>
> ...
>
>> The str*vis() calls suggest that it's something in the libc maybe?
>
>
> Brooks merged the new strvis implementations in r245439, so you may have
> run into a bug with them.  I don't think this is caused specifically by
> clang, at least not without more proof. :-)
>
> Can you try reverting to the revision just before r245439, rebuilding
> and reinstalling at least libc, and see if the pam_ssh_agent_auth crash
> goes away?

I'm rebuilding world now. Took me some time to figure out how to
revert the commits in git. I'll report back once finished.

-Kimmo


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