[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/syslog-ng: fix segfault on startup due to pthread_atfork

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Apr 24 13:58:22 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:

 > From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
 > syslog-ng may segfault at startup (during library initialization, before
 > reaching main) in newer toolchains. I have witnessed it on aarch64 (but with
 > 32-bit arm userland) with glibc 2.28.

 > Problem is described in syslog-ng issue #2263 [1], which in turn leads to a
 > problem in 'ivykis' which is shipped with syslog-ng, see ivykis issue #15
 > [2].

 > Root cause is that 'pthread_atfork' is used by ivykis but searched by its
 > configure script in libpthread_nonshared only. In newer toolchains, it seems
 > this symbol is in libc_nonshared.

 > Apply a patch someone proposed via pullrequest [3] to the ivykis project,
 > but which is at this moment not yet merged upstream.

 > [1] https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/2263
 > [2] https://github.com/buytenh/ivykis/issues/15
 > [3] https://github.com/buytenh/ivykis/pull/16

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>

Committed to 2019.02.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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