Re: seg fault at src/string/strlen.c:15

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:07:32PM -0800, Po-yi Wang wrote:
> hi
> 
> I try to compile make-4.1 for i486,ppc,arm targets.
> i486 seem ok. "make --version" runs and no problem.
> for ppc and arm targets, both seg fault at exactly the same place.
> I had to recompile musl-1.1.18 for both with "-g3" to narrow down
> the problem. it should be easy to reproduce. here is some outputs:
> 
> [ppc][1] cd /build/make-4.1; file make
> make: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1
> (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
> [ppc][1] cd /build/make-4.1; cp make make-4.1 [ppc][1] cd
> /build/make-4.1; gdb make-4.1
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> 
> (gdb) run --version
> Starting program: /tmp/build/make-4.1/make-4.1 --version
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> strlen (s=0x0) at src/string/strlen.c:15
> 15              for (w = (const void *)s; !HASZERO(*w); w++);
> (gdb)

This means make is calling strlen(0), so the bug is somewhere else --
in whatever causing the string pointer passed to strlen to be a null
pointer. Can you show a full backtrace (bt) rather than just the point
of the crash?

> output for arm target:
> 
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> Reading symbols from make-4.1...done.
> (gdb) run --version
> Starting program: /tmp/build/make-4.1/make-4.1 --version
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0002c3a0 in strlen (s=<optimized out>, s@entry=0x0) at
> src/string/strlen.c:15
> 15              for (w = (const void *)s; !HASZERO(*w); w++);
> (gdb)

Same here.

Does the problem also happen with make 4.2? Alpine Linux is using make
4.2.1 I think and I haven't heard of such a problem from them.

Rich