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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:14:08 -0500
From: Satadru Pramanik <satadru@...il.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: musl getaddr info breakage on older kernels

Oops. Looks like I reversed the patch wrong. Rebuilding again...

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 8:44 PM Satadru Pramanik <satadru@...il.com> wrote:

> Looks like I need to do more than just reverse that commit to get this to
> build...
>
> ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:47:53: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘__socketcall_cp’    47 | #define socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f)
> __syscall_ret(__socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f))
>                                                             |
>                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  ../src_musl/src/network/accept.c:6:16: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘socketcall_cp’
>     6 |         return socketcall_cp(accept, fd, addr, len, 0, 0, 0);
>       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:62:54: note: each undeclared identifier
> is reported only once for each function it appears in
>                              62 | #define __socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f)
> __syscall_cp(SYS_##nm, a, b, c, d, e, f)      |
>                           ^~~~
>  ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:55:53: note: in definition of macro
> ‘__syscall_cp6’     55 | #define __syscall_cp6(n,a,b,c,d,e,f)
> (__syscall_cp)(n,__scc(a),__scc(b),__scc(c),__scc(d),__scc(e),__scc(f))
>                                                               |
>                                          ^
>  ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:57:27: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘__SYSCALL_DISP’     57 | #define __syscall_cp(...)
> __SYSCALL_DISP(__syscall_cp,__VA_ARGS__)                    |
>              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:62:41: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘__syscall_cp’       62 | #define __socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f)
> __syscall_cp(SYS_##nm, a, b, c, d, e, f)      |
>              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../src_musl/src/internal/syscall.h:47:53: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘__socketcall_cp’
>    47 | #define socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f)
> __syscall_ret(__socketcall_cp(nm,a,b,c,d,e,f))
>                                                             |
>                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  ../src_musl/src/network/accept.c:6:16: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘socketcall_cp’          6 |         return socketcall_cp(accept, fd, addr,
> len, 0, 0, 0);                         |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../src_musl/src/network/accept.c:7:1: warning: control reaches end of
> non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
>                                    7 | }
>       | ^
>              make[2]: *** [Makefile:159: obj/src/network/accept.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_native_toolchain.20220216215322.dir/build/local/i686-linux-musl/obj_musl'
>                                                 make[1]: *** [Makefile:249:
> obj_musl/.lc_built] Error 2                                 make[1]:
> Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/musl_native_toolchain.20220216215322.dir/build/local/i686-linux-musl'
>                                                          make: ***
> [Makefile:194: all] Error 2
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 4:53 PM Satadru Pramanik <satadru@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> I was looking at that commit too. I've started a build with that reverted
>> and should be able to check back on that tomorrow.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:33 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:44:35PM -0500, Satadru Pramanik wrote:
>>> > The only change to socket.c I'm seeing is use __socketcall to simplify
>>> > socket()
>>> > <
>>> https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=7063c459e7dbd63c2c94e04413743abab5272001
>>> >,
>>> > so maybe it would make sense for me to try building with that reversed?
>>>
>>> That should not be a functional change, but you may be overlooking
>>> commit c2feda4e2ea61f4da73f2f38b2be5e327a7d1a91, which was: using the
>>> new (added in 4.3) individual socket syscalls instead of the legacy
>>> multiplexed SYS_socketcall. It's supposed to fall back to using the
>>> old ones, but perhaps something goes wrong on your kernel that's
>>> preventing it. I'm not sure what the mechanism by which it works when
>>> straced/single-stepped could be, though, but if it's a weird kernel
>>> bug anything is possible.
>>>
>>> Reverting that commit should be entirely safe, if it turns out to be
>>> what's triggering your problem, but I'd like to get to the root cause
>>> and see if there's anything we can do to ensure this doesn't come up
>>> again.
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 1:37 PM Satadru Pramanik <satadru@...il.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >>
>>> > >> - Whether any network traffic occurs when it fails (in the real
>>> > >>   environment not a replicated one elsewhere).
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > > There is no network traffic in the real environment.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> - Whether it fails or succeeds under strace (in the real
>>> > >>   environment not a replicated one elsewhere).
>>> > >>
>>> > >> It succeeds in strace (in the real environment)
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> - Whether the real environment involves Docker or not.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> The real environment does not involve docker.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> - What's in resolv.conf (in the real environment not a replicated
>>> one
>>> > >>   elsewhere) and what nameserver software (if known) is running on
>>> the
>>> > >>   nameserver(s) listed in there.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> The nameserver is picked up from dhcp. The contents of the file are
>>> as
>>> > > follows:
>>> > > nameserver 192.168.0.1
>>> > > search lan.
>>> > > options single-request timeout:1 attempts:5
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> - Anything else that might be relevant.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> DNS server is dnsmasq running on a current OpenWRT device.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> It's really hard to offer any productive advice when the problem is
>>> > >> unclear.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Apologies for the confusion.
>>> > > I'm really just trying to debug this getaddrinfo breakage on this
>>> older
>>> > > hardware. The docker containers setup is something we use to build
>>> packages
>>> > > for this hardware, and our frustration is that the software works
>>> perfectly
>>> > > fine in the docker containers, but not on the hardware.
>>> > >
>>> > > > Any other suggestions on how to track down this issue?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Rather than stepping through, I would put a single breakpoint at a
>>> > >> place you want to see whether execution reaches before running the
>>> > >> test program, then start it and see if the breakpoint fires or not.
>>> > >> Then remove the breakpoint, add a different one, and repeat. For
>>> > >> example, see if __res_msend is ever called, and if so, whether
>>> > >> particular lines of it are reached (or just put breakpoints on some
>>> of
>>> > >> the functions it calls, like socket, bind, recvfrom, poll, etc. to
>>> see
>>> > >> if they're called).
>>> > >>
>>> > >> It might also be useful to put a breakpoint on clock_gettime and
>>> then
>>> > >> 'finish' to see what it returns (in case the problem is something
>>> > >> time64-related).
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > > The only breakpoint which fixed the execution was for line 20 (which
>>> > > invokes getaddrinfo). Stepping through the __kernel_vsyscall and then
>>> > > continuing is the only way it does not result in failure.
>>> > >
>>> > > Any later breakpoints fail.
>>> > >
>>> > > I went though the other breakpoints as requested.
>>> > > clock_gettime did not fire.
>>> > >
>>> > > Breakpoint 1 at 0x5c2f7: file
>>> ../src_musl/compat/time32/clock_gettime32.c,
>>> > > line 9.
>>> > > __res_msend, setsockopt also did not fire.
>>> > > The ones that did fire were: socket, bind, recvfrom, poll,
>>> __res_msend_rc,
>>> > > memset, sendto, __get_resolv_conf, pthread_setcancelstate,
>>> > > __pthread_setcancelstate, __lookup_serv, __lookup_name, memcpy
>>> > >
>>> > > When breaking on socket, stepping through the __kernel_vsyscall call
>>> after
>>> > > socket and then continuing succeeds.
>>> > >
>>> > > Is it possible that the socket is not waiting long enough for a
>>> response
>>> > > from __kernel_vsyscall? Has that changed?
>>> > > Breaking, stepping, and continuing on every other function above
>>> fails.
>>> > >
>>> > > The gdb log is attached.
>>> > >
>>> > > Regards,
>>> > >
>>> > > Satadru
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>
>>

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