Source: libffi Version: 3.3-6 Severity: important User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Hi! Multiple users on powerpc and ppc64 have reported SIGILL crashes after upgrading to libffi8 (3.4.x): # dmesg ... [ 16.257543] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at 3fffb4283970 nip 3fffb4283970 lr 3fffb4282f90 code 1 in libffi.so.8.1.0[3fffb427b000+c000] ... Downgrading to libffi7 fixes the problem. It has been reported that building and using the upstream version does not reproduce this issue. But I have not yet independently verified that. It might be that libffi performs a runtime detection during build which causes the library to be built with a higher baseline on the POWER8 buildds. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
