On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Christophe Milard
<christophe.mil...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have noticed that (rarely enough to be a pain to catch) odp_shm and
> odpdrv_shm sress test sigfaults.
> I saw it once last week, but that was enough to worry me as the common
> part between the two tests is really the new memory allocator, _ishm.
> So I ran a test over new year trying to catch the problem -or at least
> one of then :-) - and I did caught some fish:
>
> Segfault can of course be due to very different bug, but still the
> location of the segfault may tell something:
> Here follows the baktrace:
> Thread 14 "drvshmem_main" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0x7fffc3f2a700 (LWP 40073)]
> 0x00007ffff73e59f8 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff73e59f8 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #1  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #2  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #3  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #4  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #5  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #6  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #7  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #8  0xca62c1d6ca62c1d6 in ?? ()
> #9  0x00000000000003e8 in ?? ()
> #10 0x0000000000000068 in ?? ()
> #11 0x00007ffff754a6b0 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #12 0x00007ffff73dae78 in CRYPTO_malloc () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #13 0x00007ffff73e29c8 in SHA1_Update () from
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #14 0x00007ffff74931c0 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #15 0x00007ffff74935b5 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
> #16 0x000000000040d038 in odp_random_data (buf=0x7fffc3f17ba3 "",
> len=5, kind=ODP_RANDOM_BASIC) at odp_crypto.c:1015
> #17 0x0000000000407367 in run_test_stress (arg=0x7fffffffdc58) at 
> drvshmem.c:599
> #18 0x000000000040a6ae in odpthread_run_start_routine (arg=0x665890
> <thread_tbl>) at linux.c:275
> #19 0x00007ffff6d146ba in start_thread (arg=0x7fffc3f2a700) at
> pthread_create.c:333
> #20 0x00007ffff6a4a82d in clone () at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:109
>
> That triggered the following question:
> The ODP threads used to stress the memory allocator during the test
> use odp_random_data() to generate random allocation sizes (and a few
> other random things). My assumption was that being an ODP basic block
> it would be odpthread safe (right now odp_thread = pthread). Is it?
> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Libcrypto_API#Thread_Safety says
> "OpenSSL currently is thread-NOT-safe by default"...
>
> Are we hitting this limitation here?

It would appear so. Some research shows that OpenSSL is by default not
thread-safe. Please open a bug for this so it can be properly
investigated. I'm not sure if this may affect the various ODP crypto
routines as well since by default odp-linux is using OpenSSL.

>
> Christophe.

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