Package: php5 Version: 5.6.7+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear PHP Maintainers,
PHP 5.6.15 fixed various segfaults, by which we were affected, and which caused the entire php5-fpm monitor process to crash the monitored processes in the garbage collector when using Opcache. This means that fpm would not crash reliably, in which case we could have just restarted it, but the wonky fpm master process would spawn subprocesses which would then reliably segfault, causing us random downtime which required human intervention. Since most of the changes in point-releases of PHP 5.6 are either security fixes or fixes for rather serious bugs like the segfault above, or other cases of PHP segfaulting: Would you please update PHP to 5.6.16 as part of the next jessie point release, or at least backport the fixes to the current version in the repository? See http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.15 for the complete list of changes. The particular bug we are affected by is https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70601 but http://bugs.php.net/70631 and http://bugs.php.net/70632 also look rather grave. I believe the bug affects all users of Opcache, not just fpm. Our current fix is running our own PHP package which has the fixes compiled in and has been stable so far. Best, Moritz -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
