On Thursday 15 May 2008 16:51:55 John Parker wrote: > I'm still seeing a lot of errors from valgrind, even with the latest > snapshot. > > 19 15:12 tar xvfz ../openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20080515.tar.gz > 20 15:12 cd openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20080515/ > 21 15:12 ls > 22 15:12 ./config no-asm -DPURIFY > 23 15:12 make > 24 15:14 valgrind ./apps/openssl genrsa 1024 > > Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong with this test sequence. > > The problems occur on Red Hat 5.1 server x86_64. For what it's worth, > I don't get errors on (updated :) Ubuntu 7.10. > > I do get errors even with Bodo's addition to randfile.c. I'd be happy > to post the valgrind output if that would be helpful.
If this is environment/OS-specific, then it's probably indicative of a libc (or valgrind, or gcc) issue with the fixed-in-the-past versions of those packages on RH5.1-64bit. If compiling and running the same openssl source on a different system doesn't give you problems, that would seem to imply that the problem appears and disappears based on elements that vary rather than elements that are invariant. :-) OTOH, it might just be that the different OSes catch things differently. In any case, I don't have (or want) a RH5.1-64bit installation, so you might as well post some clippings from your output to give us an idea of what it's showing. (If possible, could you please use a snapshot from HEAD for this instead of 0.9.8-stable?) TIA. Cheers, Geoff PS: I wonder whether I should be so dismissive of RH5.1 - as far as I know, it always generated usable keys ... :-) ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
