We’re seeing it happen on both bare metal and virtual machines. The VMs are libvirt/QEMU/KVM managed by OpenNebula. The hypervisor is running AlmaLinux 8 with the 4.18.0-477.15.1.el8_8.x86_64 kernel. The VMs have 2 physical/8 vCPUs allocated to them. The VM I used for the reproduction has 2GB of RAM. The VMs where we saw the problem initially have 22GB, but the setup there is a bit more complicated - there are various cgroup v1 limits, such as 2.5GB for system.slice, and 2GB for user slice. However none of that is necessary to reproduce the issue.
Since the initial report, we've done a lot of test runs with INFO-level logging on 20.04, 18.04, 22.04, as well as RedHat-family distributions, and we haven’t seen the issue again. Could be some memory corruption bug that is present only on 20.04, I guess. So far I’ve been unable to reproduce it on a 22.04 VM with DEBUG logging on. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2043114 Title: sshd segmentation fault on 20.04.6 (focal) Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: We have a physical server running Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (amd64) and openssh-server 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.9. Sometimes sshd crashes with a segmentation fault on remote login with key authentication: [193107.651745] sshd[1229630]: segfault at 5557eba6a008 ip 00007f2326a2ca53 sp 00007ffcba40c510 error 4 in libc-2.31.so[7f23269b8000+178000] We’ve changed only the following values in the stock sshd_config file: LogLevel DEBUG PasswordAuthentication no MaxStartups 100:30:100 The server is used for automated software testing, and sometimes our test suite might make a large amount of SSH connections in a short period of time, which seems to be correlated with the crashes. But at the same time, I have to note that the connection count was not near the MaxStartups limit, and we’ve had crashes before adding that setting. Since the backtrace shows the debug logging function in the stack, we’re currently experimenting with using `LogLevel INFO` to try and isolate the issue. I am attaching the backtrace. I could provide the full dump file, although I am hesitant due to the possibility of private keys or other sensitive information leaking. # apt-cache policy openssh-server openssh-server: Installed: 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.9 Candidate: 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.9 Version table: *** 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.9 500 500 http://mirrors.storpool.com/ubuntu/archive focal-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:8.2p1-4 500 500 http://mirrors.storpool.com/ubuntu/archive focal/main amd64 Packages --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: openssh-server 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.9 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-128.144-generic 5.4.210 Tags: focal Uname: Linux 5.4.0-128-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-01-13 (1030 days ago) UserGroups: N/A _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/2043114/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
