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Re: glibc 2.15 and libasound


On Sunday 25 March 2012 22:57:51 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 March 2012 13:45:09 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >> There's a problem that quite a few people have noted with
> >> recent glibc and libasound (specifically the use of libdl by
> >> the latter). I was hoping this might have gone away with glibc
> >> 2.15 but it's still there. Maybe it's not a glibc bug, though
> >> it looks rather like it. The symptom is that (e.g.) alsa's
> >> "aplay" utility reliably segfaults when called to play a wav
> >> file.
> >> 
> >> I have inserted debugging statements in libasound (version
> >> 1.0.25, dlmisc.c), to announce all its uses of the libdl
> >> functions, and run aplay under valgrind (where it doesn't
> >> actually segfault). I'm attaching the results. It looks as if
> >> there's something wrong with glibc's do_lookup_x(): it's
> >> reading from freed memory in response to dlsym() following a
> >> successful invocation of dlopen() by libasound.
> > 
> > please try some of the patches for known issues.  you can find some:
> > 	http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.15/
> > 
> > i think you want the 0050 one.
> 
> Thanks, will do. However, I think this has been a "known issue"
> since before glibc 2.14.1 (which, BTW, seemed to sink without much
> trace), so the fact that that it's still present in the 2.15 release
> seems strange.

your expectations are perfectly reasonable.  however, the current release is 
as the current release is, and i'm just attempting to assist.
-mike

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