[Unbound-users] unbound segfaults

Chris Smith fixie at chrissmith.org
Wed Apr 3 21:37:31 UTC 2013


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:26 PM, W.C.A. Wijngaards <wouter at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> I suspect two changes of causing it (I am supposedly on holiday, so
> I'll make it short).  The first is a binary API version change in
> libunbound; this should likely not affect you, but if your install is
> not 'clean', it could be that you now have two libunbound.so.x
> versions, and if you compile with --export-all-symbols then this could
> cause segfaults in the unbound daemon if it picks the wrong library
> out of your libdir.

Only one version - libunbound.so.2.2.1

> The other is a codechange, to do with private-address functionality;
> are you using private-address?  This is the only real codechange in
> this timeframe, and touches on a lot of pointers...  I thought it was
> fine, but then you always do until you find the bug :-)

Yes, using private-addresses!

> That would be this patch that then causes the issue:
> svn diff http://unbound.net/svn/trunk/iterator -r2867:2868 > file
> this code does fire even if you do not have private-addresses
> configured, but it does not seem to fail in unit tests.
> patch -r reverses the patch if you want to try that.

I'll give this a try.

Thanks,

Chris



More information about the Unbound-users mailing list