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From: Gregory Farnum <greg@inktank.com>
To: Filippos Giannakos <philipgian@grnet.gr>
Cc: "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>,
	Noah Watkins <noah.watkins@inktank.com>,
	synnefo-devel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Assertion error in librados
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:10:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPYLRzg3Qfpt+QS40iREznhCHgVEv=MAWaGNHZREr65AD9SRgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140328095443.GZ28819@philipgian-mac>

Nope, I don't think anybody's looked into it. If you have core dumps
you could get a backtrace and the return value referenced.
-Greg
Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Filippos Giannakos <philipgian@grnet.gr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We recently bumped again into the same assertion error.
> Do you have any indications or update regarding the cause ?
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:26:15AM -0800, Noah Watkins wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com> wrote:
>> > That's a good idea. This particular assert in a Mutex is almost always
>> > a use-after-free of the Mutex or structure containing it though.
>>
>> I think that a use-after-free will also throw an EINVAL (assuming it
>> isn't a pathalogical case) as pthread_mutex_lock checks an
>> initialization magic variable. I think that particular mutex isn't
>> initialized with flags that would cause any of the other possible
>> return values.
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Filippos
> <philipgian@grnet.gr>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-25 14:49 Assertion error in librados Filippos Giannakos
2014-02-25 15:28 ` Gregory Farnum
2014-02-25 15:41   ` Yehuda Sadeh
2014-02-25 15:58   ` Filippos Giannakos
2014-02-25 17:33     ` Noah Watkins
2014-02-25 17:51       ` Josh Durgin
2014-02-25 19:26         ` Noah Watkins
2014-03-28  9:54           ` Filippos Giannakos
2014-03-31 17:10             ` Gregory Farnum [this message]
2014-02-25 17:51     ` Gregory Farnum

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