On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:20 AM Sean Young <sean@mess.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 06:47:17PM -0800, camden lindsay wrote:
> > Hello-
> > I had a working ir-keytable script that stopped working the other day.
> > Investigation led to finding that ir-keytable was segfaulting whenever
> > trying to write a keymap from a file.
> >
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ uname -a
> > Linux kodiarch 5.4.13-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:09:54
> > +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$
> >
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ ir-keytable -V
> > IR keytable control version 1.18.0
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$
> >
> > Here's an example of grabbing an existing keytable entry, putting it
> > in a file, but showing that after clearing and trying to load that
> > file the segfault.  Segfault also occurs if not clearing first.
> >
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ sudo ir-keytable -r | grep KEY_DOWN
> > Enabled kernel protocols: lirc nec
> > scancode 0x800f041f = KEY_DOWN (0x6c)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ cat /etc/ir-keytable/keymap.txt
> > scancode 0x800f041f = KEY_DOWN (0x6c)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ sudo ir-keytable -c
> > Old keytable cleared
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ sudo ir-keytable -w /etc/ir-keytable/keymap.txt
> > Segmentation fault
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ sudo ir-keytable -r | grep KEY_DOWN
> > Enabled kernel protocols: lirc nec
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$ sudo ir-keytable -r
> > Enabled kernel protocols: lirc nec
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ir-keytable]$
> >
> >
> >
> > And this shows that the segfault still occurs even if i don't clear
> > the keytable first (but of course the existing contents of the table
> > still exist)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ sudo ir-keytable -r | grep KEY_DOWN
> > Enabled kernel protocols: lirc nec
> > scancode 0x800f041f = KEY_DOWN (0x6c)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ cat /etc/ir-keytable/keymap.txt
> > scancode 0x800f041f = KEY_DOWN (0x6c)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ sudo ir-keytable -w /etc/ir-keytable/keymap.txt
> > Segmentation fault
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$ sudo ir-keytable -r | grep KEY_DOWN
> > Enabled kernel protocols: lirc nec
> > scancode 0x800f041f = KEY_DOWN (0x6c)
> > [kodiuser@kodiarch ~]$
>
> I suspect ir-keytable is segfaulting in the code that reads the file; would
> you be able to share the keymap.txt file please? That way I can see if I
> can reproduce the problem.
>
> Parsing of the keymap is done in C which can be prone to these sorts of
> problems.
>
> > Here is the example syslog output of the segfault:
> > Jan 20 18:15:33 kodiarch kernel: ir-keytable[817]: segfault at 0 ip
> > 00007f1a958436f5 sp 00007ffe039a5aa8 error 4 in
> > libc-2.30.so[7f1a95707000+14d000]
> > Jan 20 18:15:33 kodiarch kernel: Code: 00 00 0f 1f 00 31 c0 c5 f8 77
> > c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 89 f9 48 89 fa c5 f9 ef
> > c0 83 e1 3f 83 f9 20 77 2b <c5> fd 74 0f c5 fd d7 c1 85 c0 0f 85 eb 00
> > 00 00 48 83 c7 20 83 e1
> > Jan 20 18:15:33 kodiarch systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 818/UID 0).
> > Jan 20 18:15:34 kodiarch systemd-coredump[819]: Process 817
> > (ir-keytable) of user 0 dumped core.
> >
> >                                                 Stack trace of thread 817:
> >                                                 #0  0x00007f1a958436f5
> > __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6 + 0x1616f5)
> >                                                 #1  0x00007f1a95770be3
> > __strdup (libc.so.6 + 0x8ebe3)
> >                                                 #2  0x0000563150aa43b7
> > n/a (ir-keytable + 0x83b7)
> >                                                 #3  0x0000563150aa44c6
> > n/a (ir-keytable + 0x84c6)
> >                                                 #4  0x00007f1a957edfc0
> > argp_parse (libc.so.6 + 0x10bfc0)
> >                                                 #5  0x0000563150aa2099
> > n/a (ir-keytable + 0x6099)
> >                                                 #6  0x00007f1a95709153
> > __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27153)
> >                                                 #7  0x0000563150aa325e
> > n/a (ir-keytable + 0x725e)
> > Jan 20 18:15:34 kodiarch systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@3-818-0.service:
> > Succeeded.
>
> This would have to be done a in debug build.
>
> Thanks
> Sean



Hello, Sean-
I'd be happy to share the files, I greatly appreciate you looking into
this.  I'll try attaching them to this email.
There are two files- one was my original file, the other was my
attempt to make the most basic file based on a single line of
ir-keytable -r.

many thanks
Camden