OES11 SP1 - Signal 11 segmentation fault in libtsafs (tsaSpinLock)

  • 7015160
  • 10-Jun-2014
  • 10-Jun-2014

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 1
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance update


Situation

In an specific deployment, where the environment consists of 'frozen' patch levels, it has been observed that incidentally tsafs is crashing with a "signal 11, Segmentation fault", exhibiting the following back trace:

#bt
#0  0xf605f06c in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#1  0xf602c4ca in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#2  0xf7733574 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#3  0xf7739c84 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#4  0xf770d7ab in SMtgtrsp_ServiceIPC () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#5  0xf7707973 in SMrsp_Respond () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#6  0xf76fb691 in SMchild_Main () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#7  0xf771e848 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#8  0xf768d809 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#9  0xf74a130e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6




Resolution

Reported to engineering.