On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Angelin Lalev <lalev.ange...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Greetings,
> I could use some help.
>
> I'm getting segmentation fault from this code:
>
> /* Init the openssl library */
> SSL_load_error_strings();
> SSL_library_init();
>
> ctx=SSL_CTX_new(SSLv3_client_method());
>
> The backtrace looks like this:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000086d1fc in read ()
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0 0x000000000086d1fc in read ()
>
Run "info threads" and see what the other threads are doing. ("thread n"
followed by "backtrace") Presumably the crash is on another thread since
it is "hard" to make read() crash.
> #1 0x00000000004eb3fe in RAND_poll () at rand_unix.c:347
> #2 0x00000000004eabed in ssleay_rand_bytes (buf=0x88ed00 "", num=16,
> pseudo=1)
> at md_rand.c:394
> #3 0x00000000004eb0b0 in ssleay_rand_pseudo_bytes (buf=0x88ed00 "",
> num=16)
> at md_rand.c:543
> #4 0x000000000045d352 in RAND_pseudo_bytes (buf=0x88ed00 "", num=16)
> at rand_lib.c:172
> #5 0x0000000000424163 in SSL_CTX_new (meth=0x5c4200) at ssl_lib.c:1808
> #6 0x0000000000402ca2 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe718) at fing.c:253
>
> My system is Ubuntu Server LTS 12.10 and it's currently installed in a
> VirtualBox virtual machine.
> I'm not at all proficient in C, even more in Linux development and I
> cannot by myself determine what
> I did to break things. Up to one moment, the program was working, at
> the next recompilation/reboot it just
> stopped :-) I do a binary which will be located on initramfs system,
> so it is statically compiled.
> OpenSSL is compiled with the following config options
>
> ./config -d no-dso no-shared
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