linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck sigcatcher breaks valgrind

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Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:28:58 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	linux-ext4 List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck sigcatcher breaks valgrind

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:38:09AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I was reading Eric's recent commit message in "next" about how he used
> e2fsprogs "./test_script --valgrind" to find the uninitialized memory and
> thought I would try it myself.  To my dismay it was failing on my system with:
> 
> ==2806==    at 0x3566A0F5BE: __libc_sigaction (in /lib64/libpthread-2.12.2.so)
> ==2806==    by 0x4321A3: sigcatcher_setup (sigcatcher.c:224)
> ==2806==    by 0x40F4DE: main (unix.c:1027)
> ==2806==  Address 0x7fefffe18 is on thread 1's stack
> ==2806==
> ==2806== Syscall param rt_sigaction(act->sa_mask) points to uninitialised byte(s)
> 
> After a bunch of testing as to why this system was not working correctly,
> it turns out that the problem is in the later commit 9b3018a82e843d.
> Reverting that commit fixes the problem and allows --valgrind tests to pass.

Oops, thanks for the bug report, I'll fix it.

For context, the reason why I added this was I had a nearly impossible
to debug crash in e2fsck that happened extremely rarely, and only in
my virtualized xfstests environment.  I found the bug and fixed it in
commit a4aff9ca5.

> 
> I also noticed (for Lukas), "./test_script --valgrind i_e2image" fails with:
> 
> i_e2image: Create/convert raw and qcow2 disk images: ./i_e2image/script: line 2: test: too many arguments
> 
> That is due to:
> 
>    if test -x $E2IMAGE; then
> 
> expanding to:
> 
>    if test -x valgrind -q --sim-hints=lax-ioctls ../misc/e2image; then

Thanks, I'll look at fixing this as well.

	     	     	    	 - Ted
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