Bug 768566

Summary:	plymouthd memory corruption
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy <forgotten_sM9JzehKpy>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 12.2
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-06-24 13:12:16 UTC

when running plymouthd under sysvinit, it triggers a glibc corruption error.
Valgrind shows

==4758== Invalid read of size 1
==4758==    at 0x52E6BDE: __GI_memcpy (in /lib64/libc-2.15.so)
==4758==    by 0x40C967: check_for_consoles (main.c:2024)
==4758==    by 0x404C64: main (main.c:2134)
==4758==  Address 0x5f23cf0 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 9 free'd
==4758==    at 0x4C29D4E: free (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==4758==    by 0x40C938: check_for_consoles (main.c:2016)
==4758==    by 0x404C64: main (main.c:2134)
==4758== 
==4758== Invalid read of size 8
==4758==    at 0x52E6C16: __GI_memcpy (in /lib64/libc-2.15.so)
==4758==    by 0x40C967: check_for_consoles (main.c:2024)
==4758==    by 0x404C64: main (main.c:2134)
==4758==  Address 0x5f23cf1 is 1 bytes inside a block of size 9 free'd
==4758==    at 0x4C29D4E: free (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==4758==    by 0x40C938: check_for_consoles (main.c:2016)
==4758==    by 0x404C64: main (main.c:2134)
==4758== 
==4758== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==4758==    at 0x4C29D4E: free (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==4758==    by 0x4E3B202: ply_hashtable_foreach (in /usr/lib64/libply.so.2.0.0)
==4758==    by 0x40C988: check_for_consoles (main.c:2034)
==4758==    by 0x404C64: main (main.c:2134)
==4758==  Address 0x40efd5 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd

Comment 1 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2012-06-24 20:57:03 UTC

Ludwig already submitted an update for Plymouth to prevent is from running under sysvinit. This was forwarded to Factory with SR#125662.

Comment 2 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2012-07-30 12:52:14 UTC

Please let me know if this bug is still valid ?

Comment 3 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2012-08-07 11:12:26 UTC

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