rasserver dies with segfault when configured with a postgres backend

[Alex Dumitru]

Rasdaman has segfaults after a couple of queries when configured with the postgresql backend.
Logs can be found here: ​http://codereview.rasdaman.org/jenkins/job/vagrant-exec/ws/logs/build146.tar.gz and a new job is available on jenkins for testing this setup.

Stacktrace:

 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.101563: Segmentation fault caught, stacktrace:
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.108553: [bt]: (1) /usr/lib/libpq.so.5 (??:0) - PQtransactionStatus+0xe [0x7f237a9a8f6e]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.113760: [bt]: (2) /usr/lib/libecpg.so.6 (??:0) - +0x56ad [0x7f237a68e6ad]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117092: [bt]: (3) /usr/lib/libecpg.so.6 (??:0) - ECPGdo+0x18d [0x7f237a68f0ad]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117117: [bt]: (4) /bin/rasserver() [0x5a75cd]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117120: [bt]: (5) /bin/rasserver() [0x5caef9]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117123: [bt]: (6) /bin/rasserver() [0x475322]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117125: [bt]: (7) /bin/rasserver() [0x464b9c]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117127: [bt]: (8) /bin/rasserver() [0x6380bb]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117129: [bt]: (9) /bin/rasserver() [0x652d5e]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117131: [bt]: (10) /bin/rasserver() [0x670172]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117134: [bt]: (11) /bin/rasserver() [0x6c4422]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117136: [bt]: (12) /bin/rasserver() [0x6cc832]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.117141: [bt]: (13) /bin/rasserver() [0x6cca23]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.121870: [bt]: (14) /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (??:?) - +0xb1a60 [0x7f2377fa4a60]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.124316: [bt]: (15) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (??:0) - +0x8182 [0x7f2379503182]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.127571: [bt]: (16) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (??:?) - clone+0x6d [0x7f237770c47d]
 [INFO] - 24/03/2016 10:50:05.127593: rasserver terminated.

[Dimitar Misev]

Has this been fixed?

[Dimitar Misev]

Please check how to enable postgres with cmake (and document if it isn't), and then check about the segfault problem.

[bbell]

Enabling postgres with cmake (v3+) (see ​http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/InstallFromSource/cmake):

in your build directory…
cmake …<arguments>… -DDEFAULT_DB=postgresql
make
make install

remark: if your "service" name is postgresql-version#, you will run into some trouble here. in linux, the service name should be postgresql.

Regarding the segfault: this seems to happen in different places, at different times. Usually, this happens for requests which take a longer time. For example, if attaching gdb to rasserver, and running some data ingestion (e.g. insert into <args>), then backtraces of the segfaults will point to the objectbroker files.

An approach towards attacking this ticket in the future: run git bisect with ticket:945's patch set to good. The associated sha1: d302f450a9837388754199cd4a051561e2d08f64

[Dimitar Misev]

Replying to bbell:

Enabling postgres with cmake (v3+) (see ​http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/InstallFromSource/cmake):

in your build directory…
cmake …<arguments>… -DDEFAULT_DB=postgresql

it's actually -DDEFAULT_BASEDB=postgresql

[Dimitar Misev]

On further inspection, it seems like the issue only happens with rasnet. Compiling —with-protocol=rnp and postgresql works with no issue.

The problem is that it segfaults randomly within libpq, in places where you wouldn't expect any segfault. It's very unclear at the moment what the issue is.

[Peter Baumann]

just a suspicion: pg dies because the stack gets overwritten because some other ptr on the stack gets overwritten because of some memory overwrite beyond boundaries → try valgrind?

[Dimitar Misev]

valgrind is not possible unfortunately as it only happens when the query goes through rasnet.
No issues with directql. But I noticed that it tends to happen starting from the second query, so it's possible that something is not cleaned up after the first query.

[Dimitar Misev]

It seems to have been resolved meanwhile, at least on Debian buster I don't get the issue anymore.