The crash seems to happen approximately daily. Here's more debugging text.
mi...@evo:~/frogmod-justice$ gdb frogserv core.14829
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Core was generated by `/home/mihai/frogmod-justice/frogserv'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 14829]
#0 evhttp_request_get_input_buffer (req=0x99d90f8) at http.c:3014
3014 {
(gdb) up
#1 0x08091a0e in _bufferevent_run_eventcb (bufev=0x20, what=0) at
bufferevent.c:264
264 bufev->errorcb(bufev, what, bufev->cbarg);
Current language: auto; currently c
(gdb)
#2 0x080928cd in bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb (result=-4,
ai=0x99e3100, arg=0x99d90f8) at bufferevent_sock.c:444
444 _bufferevent_run_eventcb(bev, BEV_EVENT_ERROR);
(gdb) list 434
429 static void
430 bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb(int result, struct evutil_addrinfo
*ai,
431 void *arg)
432 {
433 struct bufferevent *bev = arg;
434 struct bufferevent_private *bev_p =
435 EVUTIL_UPCAST(bev, struct bufferevent_private, bev);
436 int r;
437 BEV_LOCK(bev);
438
(gdb)
439 bufferevent_unsuspend_write(bev, BEV_SUSPEND_LOOKUP);
440 bufferevent_unsuspend_read(bev, BEV_SUSPEND_LOOKUP);
441
442 if (result != 0) {
443 bev_p->dns_error = result;
444 _bufferevent_run_eventcb(bev, BEV_EVENT_ERROR);
445 _bufferevent_decref_and_unlock(bev);
446 if (ai)
447 evutil_freeaddrinfo(ai);
448 return;
(gdb) print bev[0]
$1 = {ev_base = 0x981d660, be_ops = 0x80ab4e0, ev_read =
{ev_active_next = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}, ev_next =
{tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x99d9150}, ev_timeout_pos =
{ev_next_with_common_timeout = {
tqe_next = 0xffffffff, tqe_prev = 0x0}, min_heap_idx = -1},
ev_fd = 21, ev_base = 0x981d660, _ev = {ev_io = {ev_io_next =
{tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x99d9168}, ev_timeout = {tv_sec = 0,
tv_usec = 0}}, ev_signal = {ev_signal_next = {tqe_next =
0x0, tqe_prev = 0x99d9168}, ev_ncalls = 0, ev_pncalls = 0x0}},
ev_events = 18, ev_res = 0, ev_flags = 128, ev_pri = 5 '\005',
ev_closure = 2 '\002', ev_timeout = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0},
ev_callback = 0x8092060 <bufferevent_readcb>, ev_arg = 0x99d90f8},
ev_write = {ev_active_next = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}, ev_next
= {
tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x99eca48}, ev_timeout_pos =
{ev_next_with_common_timeout = {tqe_next = 0xffffffff, tqe_prev =
0x0}, min_heap_idx = -1}, ev_fd = 21, ev_base = 0x981d660, _ev =
{ev_io = {
ev_io_next = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x984be68},
ev_timeout = {tv_sec = 45, tv_usec = 0}}, ev_signal = {ev_signal_next
= {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x984be68}, ev_ncalls = 45, ev_pncalls =
0x0}},
ev_events = 20, ev_res = 0, ev_flags = 128, ev_pri = 5 '\005',
ev_closure = 2 '\002', ev_timeout = {tv_sec = 803939, tv_usec =
464008}, ev_callback = 0x8091df0 <bufferevent_writecb>, ev_arg =
0x99d90f8},
input = 0x99d9208, output = 0x99d9258, wm_read = {low = 0, high =
0}, wm_write = {low = 0, high = 0}, readcb = 0, writecb = 0, errorcb =
0x809d400 <evhttp_connection_cb>, cbarg = 0x99e3100, timeout_read = {
tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0}, timeout_write = {tv_sec = 45, tv_usec =
0}, enabled = 0}
(gdb) print bev_p[0]
No symbol "bev_p" in current context.
(gdb)
It seems that by the time _bufferevent_run_eventcb() is called, its
bufev argument ends up being 0x20. No idea what to do next.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mihai Draghicioiu
<mihai.draghici...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, i've received a http/dns related crash inside libevent code, and
> i'm not sure if it's a libevent bug or my application's bug.
>
> I'm using 2.0.7-rc on linux.
>
> The code that uses the http code is here
> http://github.com/vampirefrog/frogmod-justice/blob/master/fpsgame/server.cpp#L746
> Lines 746-790.
> It tries to do a simple POST request to a pre-configured URL.
>
> The backtrace:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0xb74af6c0 (LWP 8189)]
> evhttp_request_get_input_buffer (req=0x8a57dd0) at http.c:3014
> 3014 {
> Current language: auto; currently c
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0 evhttp_request_get_input_buffer (req=0x8a57dd0) at http.c:3014
> #1 0x080919fe in _bufferevent_run_eventcb (bufev=0x20, what=0) at
> bufferevent.c:264
> #2 0x080928bd in bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb (result=-4,
> ai=0x8a47d50, arg=0x8a57dd0) at bufferevent_sock.c:444
> #3 0x0809fa39 in evdns_getaddrinfo_timeout_cb (fd=-1, what=1,
> ptr=0x8a58100) at evdns.c:4112
> #4 0x0808a5aa in event_base_loop (base=0x8607660, flags=<value
> optimized out>) at event.c:1288
> #5 0x0808b1b9 in event_base_dispatch (event_base=0x8607660) at event.c:1382
> #6 0x08061439 in rundedicatedserver () at
> /home/mihai/frogmod-justice/engine/server.cpp:828
> #7 0x08062c10 in initserver (listen=true, dedicated=true) at
> /home/mihai/frogmod-justice/engine/server.cpp:1010
> #8 0x08062d08 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfdac3a4) at
> /home/mihai/frogmod-justice/engine/server.cpp:107
>
> I've stopped gdb without saving a core dump, but this crash has
> happened before and it will happen again. It seems to be related to
> dns timeout. If i add the http host in /etc/hosts, this crash doesn't
> happen anymore.
>
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