threads/91972: perl segfaults in pthread init code

[Joe Bishop]

>Number:         91972
>Category:       threads
>Synopsis:       perl segfaults in pthread init code
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-threads
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 18 21:00:15 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joe Bishop
>Release:        6.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD Vigor11 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Tue Jan 17 23:07:09 PST 2006     root at Vigor11:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
Installed from CD 6.0-RELEASE.  After install, tried 'startx'.  Console went to video mode, but announced kdeinit had failed.  Main terminal showed problems launching X, specifically X getconfig had Segfaulted and passed bad data to X.

cvsup'd the kernel and recompiled with only I686_CPU and with -O2 -march=pentiumpro.  No change.

Investigation showed that perl segfaulted when run from the command line.  gdb helped show that it was crashing in pthread code.

Fetched perl-5.8.7_2 from FTP server, no change.

cvsup'd src-lib and src-libexec and src-contrib.  Rebuilt libc, libcrypt, libpthread.  No change.

Built libpthread with debug data and ran gdb again.  Output is below.
Is this a bizarre bug, or a possible hardware issue?  Hardware is Gigabyte NForce 2/3/4 chipset with Athlon CPU.  Was previously running WinXP+games without indications of hardware glitchiness.


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[New LWP 100069]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to LWP 100069]
_tcb_ctor (thread=0x8054000, initial=1)
    at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/arch/i386/i386/pthread_md.c:51
51                      __asm __volatile("movl %%gs:0, %0" : "=r" (oldtls));
(gdb) bt
#0  _tcb_ctor (thread=0x8054000, initial=1)
    at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/arch/i386/i386/pthread_md.c:51
#1  0x281bc3c8 in _thr_alloc (curthread=0x0)
    at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c:2373
#2  0x281bd4ed in _libpthread_init (curthread=0x0)
    at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_init.c:280
#3  0x281c167d in _thread_init_hack ()
    at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_autoinit.c:50
#4  0x281c31d5 in _lockuser_setactive () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#5  0x281a29a5 in _init () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#6  0x2806e000 in ?? ()
#7  0x28068cd8 in ?? () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#8  0xbfbfebf4 in ?? ()
#9  0x2804fc69 in find_symdef () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#10 0x2804e923 in _rtld () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#11 0x2804e386 in .rtld_start () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
(gdb) info registers
eax            0x0      0
ecx            0x804b080        134525056
edx            0x0      0
ebx            0x281c54bc       672945340
esp            0xbfbfeb1c       0xbfbfeb1c
ebp            0xbfbfeb34       0xbfbfeb34
esi            0x8054000        134561792
edi            0x0      0
eip            0x281c16a8       0x281c16a8
eflags         0x10202  66050
cs             0x33     51
ss             0x3b     59
ds             0x3b     59
es             0x3b     59
fs             0x3b     59
gs             0x3b     59

>How-To-Repeat:
Install 6.0-RELEASE, run perl.
>Fix:
              
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