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Message 80117 - Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 12:23:28 UTC
Last modified: 11 Aug 2017, 13:00:36 UTC

I keep hitting this after running fresh boinc client for months again and again,
quite desperate as I have no idea where to start for debugging

hardware
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Intel S1200RP

platform
Gentoo Linux
Linux bacztwo 4.9.34-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Jul 6 18:16:42 CST 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

tried
BOINC client version 7.2.44 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
BOINC client version 7.6.33 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
BOINC client version 7.8.1 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

all crashed.

no special sequence to reproduce,

all I do is start a frech boinc client,
attached it to BAM,
running few days or weeks, then I will hit this, probably cause by one of my job or something,

following is the log for assessment

https://pastebin.com/BQ4Lkf6T

stdoutdae.txt
https://pastebin.com/ZprXtnku

stderrdae.txt
https://pastebin.com/WfWfH1di

strace.log [huge text, don't open with browser]
https://pastebin.com/raw/zk0P7k6G
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Message 80124 - Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 16:07:04 UTC - in response to Message 80117.  

Can you recompile the client with debugging symbols? It's not exactly obvious from the strace where it's crashing.
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Message 80157 - Posted: 13 Aug 2017, 17:41:37 UTC - in response to Message 80124.  

it will be nice if you can help me with this,

I have no experience about C development and debugging,
99% of time I do python/bash/web,
I only use strace to do some simple job like looking for what file certain program touched

 # file /usr/bin/boinc
/usr/bin/boinc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped, with debug_info


so it will be helpful if you can enlighten me how should I do it
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Message 80159 - Posted: 13 Aug 2017, 18:04:22 UTC
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I followed some random google result and get some output, doesn't know if this help

# gdb boinc_client
(gdb) catch syscall exit_group
(gdb) run
...
Thread 1 "boinc_client" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff5cd1118 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff5cd1118 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff5cd256a in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff5d0de91 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff5d95f47 in __fortify_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#4  0x00007ffff5d93fe0 in __chk_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#5  0x00007ffff5d93489 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#6  0x00007ffff5d115e0 in _IO_default_xsputn () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#7  0x00007ffff5ce5bba in vfprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#8  0x00007ffff5d9351c in __vsprintf_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#9  0x00007ffff5d93475 in __sprintf_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#10 0x000000000041d1ef in CLIENT_STATE::report_result_error(RESULT&, char const*, ...) ()
#11 0x000000000041fb7f in CLIENT_STATE::garbage_collect_always() ()
#12 0x000000000042071e in CLIENT_STATE::garbage_collect() ()
#13 0x0000000000420a59 in CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events() ()
#14 0x000000000047363a in boinc_main_loop() ()
#15 0x00000000004085a0 in main ()
(gdb)
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Message 80160 - Posted: 13 Aug 2017, 18:29:59 UTC

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Message 80161 - Posted: 13 Aug 2017, 19:16:45 UTC - in response to Message 80160.  

I thought you had corrupted client_state.xml but I can't see anything obviously wrong in it.

Could you run the following commands in gdb:

frame 10
list
info args
print res.name
info locals
frame 9
info args


Depending on how gdb decides to handle whatever garbage those commands print out your terminal may crash.
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Message 80167 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 7:18:40 UTC
Last modified: 14 Aug 2017, 7:23:19 UTC

I missed
-g
for gcc compile with debug info,
here is bt with much more info,

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff5cd1118 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff5cd256a in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff5d0de91 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff5d95f47 in __fortify_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#4  0x00007ffff5d93fe0 in __chk_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#5  0x00007ffff5d93489 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#6  0x00007ffff5d115e0 in _IO_default_xsputn () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#7  0x00007ffff5ce5bba in vfprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#8  0x00007ffff5d9351c in __vsprintf_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#9  0x00007ffff5d93475 in __sprintf_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#10 0x000000000041d1ef in sprintf (__fmt=0x4bcd7d "<message>\n%s\n</message>\n",
    __s=0x7fffffffbb80 "<message>\nupload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_x"...)
    at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:34
#11 CLIENT_STATE::report_result_error (this=this@entry=0x6fddc0 <gstate>, res=..., format=format@entry=0x4bcea6 "upload failure: %s") at client_state.cpp:1864
#12 0x000000000041fb7f in CLIENT_STATE::garbage_collect_always (this=this@entry=0x6fddc0 <gstate>) at client_state.cpp:1588
#13 0x000000000042071e in CLIENT_STATE::garbage_collect (this=0x6fddc0 <gstate>) at client_state.cpp:1409
#14 0x0000000000420a59 in CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events (this=0x6fddc0 <gstate>) at client_state.cpp:1054
#15 0x000000000047363a in boinc_main_loop () at main.cpp:373
#16 0x00000000004085a0 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe058) at main.cpp:548
(gdb)


and following is what you requested, due to I recompile the boinc_client, the stack changed a littel

(gdb) frame 11
#11 CLIENT_STATE::report_result_error (this=this@entry=0x6fddc0 <gstate>, res=..., format=format@entry=0x4bcea6 "upload failure: %s") at client_state.cpp:1864
1864    in client_state.cpp


(gdb) list
1859    in client_state.cpp


(gdb) info args

https://pastebin.com/raw/1UfczAzP

(gdb) print res.name
$1 = "wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1\000\062\060\061\061-01-30.gz\000\000\000\000\000\000\000wah2_sas!\a\000\000\000\000\000\000X\033\003\366\377\177\000\000X\033\003\366\377\177", '\000' <repeats 18 times>, "_2101-01\361\006\000\000\000\000\000\000X\033\003\366\377\177\000\000X\033\003\366\377\177", '\000' <repeats 27 times>, "\276y\000\000\000\000\000P\207\377\377\377\177\000\000\320\330\377\377\377\177\000\000\300xz\000\000\000\000\000"...

(gdb) info locals
buf = "<message>\nupload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_x"...
err_msg = "upload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>"...
i = <optimized out>
failnum = 538976266
va = <error reading variable va (Attempt to dereference a generic pointer.)>


(gdb) frame 10
#10 0x000000000041d1ef in sprintf (__fmt=0x4bcd7d "<message>\n%s\n</message>\n",
    __s=0x7fffffffbb80 "<message>\nupload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_x"...)
    at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:34
34                                        __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());


(gdb) info args
__fmt = 0x4bcd7d "<message>\n%s\n</message>\n"
__s = 0x7fffffffbb80 "<message>\nupload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_x"...
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Message 80168 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 7:46:15 UTC

as
char buf[4096],  err_msg[4096];
    // The above store 1-line messages and short XML snippets.
    // Shouldn't exceed a few hundred bytes.

then we got a max out err_msg, not just few hundred bytes,
sprintf( buf, "<message>\n%s\n</message>\n", err_msg);

so sprintf got buffer overflow due to the extra message tag?
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Message 80175 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 14:23:55 UTC
Last modified: 14 Aug 2017, 14:24:13 UTC

(gdb) set print elements 0
(gdb) print err_msg
$6 = "upload failure: <file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_1.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_2.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_3.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_4.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_5.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_6.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_7.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_8.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_9.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_10.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_11.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_12.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_13.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_14.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_15.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_16.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_17.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_18.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_19.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_20.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_21.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_22.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_23.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_145_613_011130398_1_r113524241_24.zip</file_name>\n  <error_code>-161 (not found)</error_code>\n</file_xfer_error>\n<file_xfer_error>\n  <file_name>wah2_global_a04w_208812_1"
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Message 80176 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 14:35:06 UTC

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Message 80185 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 20:38:53 UTC - in response to Message 80176.  

Guess the person who wrote the comment didn't except that tasks could 147 output files.

Since you can compile the code yourself you can change the code in report_result_error() from

sprint(buf


to

snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf)
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Message 80187 - Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 6:25:22 UTC

that doesn't look like the right fix because it cut's out the end of
</message>

I think reduce the size of
err_msg
or increase
buf

but I know nothing about the workflow of report_result_error,
this could just a temporary fix,

will you take the bug to upstream? or do I have to open issue on github?
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Message 80192 - Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 11:45:08 UTC - in response to Message 80187.  

If you haven't done so yet, please do make it an issue at https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues
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Message 80277 - Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 16:28:49 UTC - in response to Message 80192.  

client: eliminate possible buffer overflow in reporting result errors
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/8e7857623edeed8ecfdcc8f1395a4d0b625e06f9

upstream fixed
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