From: "tang.junhui" <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: tang.junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx> segment faulty occured in dm_get_status(), the call trace is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (gdb) bt 0 0x000000338ec328a5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 1 0x000000338ec3400d in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 2 0x000000000040596d in sigsegv () 3 <signal handler called> 4 0x000000338ec480ac in vfprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6 5 0x000000338ec6f9d2 in vsnprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6 6 0x000000338ec4f4a3 in snprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6 7 0x00007f43fe66bbb9 in dm_get_status (name=0x7f43f0001eb0 "spathe", outstatus=<value optimized out>) at devmapper.c:521 8 0x00007f43fe68c058 in update_multipath_status (mpp=0x7f43f000ad60, pathvec=<value optimized out>) at structs_vec.c:465 9 update_multipath_strings (mpp=0x7f43f000ad60, pathvec=<value optimized out>) at structs_vec.c:495 10 0x0000000000409056 in check_path () 11 0x0000000000409c7e in checkerloop () 12 0x0000003b27207851 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 13 0x000000338ece890d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- we debuged the code, and found that targets information storing in the list dmt->head which fetching from kernel by executing dm_task_run() is null. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- rbx 0x7f43c4000d60 139929027874144 (gdb) p *(struct dm_task *)0x7f43c4000d60 $3 = {type = 10, dev_name = 0x7f43c4000d40 "spathe", head = 0x0, tail = 0x0, read_only = 0, event_nr = 0, major = -1, minor = -1, allow_default_major_fallback = 1, uid = 0, gid = 0, mode = 384, read_ahead = 4294967295, read_ahead_flags = 0, dmi = { v4 = 0x7f43c40011e0, v1 = 0x7f43c40011e0}, newname = 0x0, message = 0x0, geometry = 0x0, sector = 0, no_flush = 0, no_open_count = 1, skip_lockfs = 0, query_inactive_table = 0, suppress_identical_reload = 0, existing_table_size = 0, cookie_set = 0, uuid = 0x0} ----------------------------------------------------------------------- since status is not initioned to null, so after calling dm_get_next_target(dmt, next, &start, &length,&target_type, &status),status becaming wild pointer, which lead snprintf() into the situation of segment faulty. --- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c index 5eb1713..89aa5da 100644 --- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c +++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c @@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ dm_get_status(char * name, char * outstatus) int r = 1; struct dm_task *dmt; uint64_t start, length; - char *target_type; - char *status; + char *target_type = NULL; + char *status = NULL; if (!(dmt = dm_task_create(DM_DEVICE_STATUS))) return 1; @@ -551,6 +551,10 @@ dm_get_status(char * name, char * outstatus) /* Fetch 1st target */ dm_get_next_target(dmt, NULL, &start, &length, &target_type, &status); + if (!status) { + condlog(2, "get null status."); + goto out; + } if (snprintf(outstatus, PARAMS_SIZE, "%s", status) <= PARAMS_SIZE) r = 0; -- 2.8.1.windows.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel