use valgrind / Re: SIGSEGV in cyrus-imapd 3.0.7 mupdate

ellie timoney ellie at fastmail.com
Thu Jul 12 22:47:59 EDT 2018


> so it seems to me that the dh_params were set once on startup but  
> freed for each closed connection

Yikes :o

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, at 7:09 PM, Michael Menge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Дилян had suggested to add some debug outputs to imap/tls.c
> 
> --------
> 
> diff --git a/imap/tls.c b/imap/tls.c
> --- a/imap/tls.c
> +++ b/imap/tls.c
> @@ -893,7 +893,9 @@ EXPORTED int     tls_init_serverengine(const char *ident,
> 
>   #if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x0090800fL)
>       /* Load DH params for DHE-* key exchanges */
> +    syslog(LOG_CRIT, "dh_params will be set, current value=%p", dh_params);
>       dh_params = load_dh_param(server_key_file, server_cert_file);
> +    syslog(LOG_CRIT, "dh_params were set current_value=%p", dh_params);
>       SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh(s_ctx, dh_params);
>   #endif
> 
> @@ -1308,7 +1310,11 @@ EXPORTED int tls_shutdown_serverengine(void)
>           }
> 
>   #if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x0090800fL)
> -        if (dh_params) DH_free(dh_params);
> +        if (dh_params) {
> +               syslog(LOG_CRIT, "dh_params will be freed %p", dh_params);
> +               DH_free(dh_params);
> +               syslog(LOG_CRIT, "dh_params were freed %p", dh_params);
> +       }
>   #endif
>       }
> -----
> 
> I did run mupdate with this debug output
> 
> 
> Jul 12 10:17:25 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: dh_params will be set, current  
> value=(nil)
> Jul 12 10:17:25 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: inittls: Loading DH parameters  
> from file
> Jul 12 10:17:25 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: dh_params were set  
> current_value=0x7fc7541b9600
> Jul 12 10:17:25 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: starttls: TLSv1.2 with cipher  
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits new) no authentication
> Jul 12 10:17:25 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: login: msmx02.mail.localhost  
> [10.23.21.78] cyrus PLAIN+TLS User logged in
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: starttls: TLSv1.2 with cipher  
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits new) no authentication
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: login: msmx02.mail.localhost  
> [10.23.21.78] cyrus PLAIN+TLS User logged in
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: dh_params will be freed 0x7fc7541b9600
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: dh_params were freed 0x7fc7541b9600
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: starttls: TLSv1.2 with cipher  
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits new) no authentication
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: login: msmx02.mail.localhost  
> [10.23.21.78] cyrus PLAIN+TLS User logged in
> Jul 12 10:18:37 mx02 mu/mupdate[6537]: dh_params will be freed 0x7fc7541b9600
> Jul 12 10:18:38 mx02 mu/master[6534]: process type:SERVICE  
> name:mupdate path:/usr/local/libexec/mupdate age:89.131s pid:6537  
> signaled to death by signal 11 (Segmentation fault, core dumped)
> Jul 12 10:18:38 mx02 mu/master[6534]: service mupdate/ipv4 pid 6537 in  
> READY state: terminated abnormally
> 
> so it seems to me that the dh_params were set once on startup but  
> freed for each closed connection
> 
> Regards
> 
>      Michael Menge
> 
> 
> Quoting Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
> 
> > Hi Дилян,
> >
> >
> > Quoting Дилян Палаузов <Dilyan.Palauzov at aegee.org>:
> >
> >> Hello Michael,
> >>
> >> this is likely either a memory mishandling issue (use after free(),
> >> double free(), invalid read()/write()...), which gets evident if cyrus
> >> is run under valgrind --tool=memcheck.  I run it with
> >>
> >> valgrind --num-callers=30 --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes --read-
> >> var-info=yes --show-leak-kinds=all --trace-children=yes --track-fds=yes
> >> /usr/local/cyrus/bin/master -D &> log-file-memcheck
> >>
> >
> > thanks for the valgind options. Valgrind did find some "Invalid read  
> > of size 4"
> > and "size 8" in DH_free as well as "Invalid write of size 4" in  
> > CRYPTO_add_lock
> > and "size 8" in OPENSSL_cleanse. As far as i can tell the memory was  
> > always free'd
> > before by CRYPTO_free (mem.c:434).
> >
> > I have attached the full log
> >
> >>
> >> Another reason can be multi-threaded inconsistencies: mutexes locked in
> >> inconsistent order by differnt threads (while this is not a cause for
> >> crash, it leads to deadlock), mutexes locked in one thread and unlocked
> >> in another or alike.  This can be detected by valgrind/helgrind
> >>
> >> valgrind --tool=helgrind --num-callers=30 --leak-check=full --track-
> >> origins=yes --read-var-info=yes --trace-children=yes --track-fds=yes
> >> /usr/local/cyrus/bin/master -D &> log-file-helgrind
> >>
> >
> > I had to remove some options here, as my valgrind didn't know them with
> > --tool=helgrind
> >
> > I used /usr/bin/valgrind --tool=helgrind --num-callers=30  
> > --read-var-info=yes --trace-children=yes --track-fds=yes  
> > /usr/local/libexec/master -C /etc/imapd_mu.conf -M  
> > /etc/cyrus_mu.conf -p /var/run/cyurs_mu.pid -D &>  
> > /tmp/cyrus-mupdate-log-file-helgrind
> >
> > Valgrind did find some "Possible data race during read" and "This  
> > conflicts with a previous write"
> > I have attached the full log as well
> >
> >
> >
> >> Of course, it is useful to have debugging symbols.  Compiling with -O3
> >> migh make things faster, while compiling with -O0 will make it run
> >> considerably slower. If ld (=ld.bfd) is very, very recent (e.g. 2.31),
> >> then link with  -Wl,-z,noseparate-code otherwise valgrind cannot read
> >> the debug info (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395682).
> >>
> >> Then it shall be possible to see in one or the other log files what is
> >> relevant for causing SIGSERV, in particular the first place where bad
> >> operation happens, which might be some time before the crash.
> >>
> >
> > I hope this helps untangle the web of multiple threads, race conditions
> > and use after free, to find the root of this problem.
> >
> > If there is any more that i can do to help let me know.
> >
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 17:24 +0200, Michael Menge wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> we are in the process of setting up our new production mailserver with
> >>> cyrus-imapd 3.0.7 on RHEL 7.5 Servers.
> >>>
> >>> At the moment we encounter many crashes (SIGSEGV) of the mupdate process on
> >>> the mupdate master instance. As soon as we issue a command that updates
> >>> multiple mailboxes in short time we trigger a SIGSEGV.
> >>>
> >>>> sam user/zrstes* cyrus all
> >>>
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail/drafts...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail/s-spam...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail/sent...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail/trash...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes1/Mail/v-spam...OK.
> >>> Setting ACL on user/zrstes2...cyrus: lrswipkxtea: no connection to server
> >>>
> >>> I suspect that at this time the connection from the backend to the
> >>> mupdate master
> >>> is lost as the mupdate process received the SIGSEGV
> >>>
> >>> (gdb) bt
> >>> #0  0x00007fb49c000098 in ?? ()
> >>> #1  0x00007fb4a9a59a85 in DH_free (r=0x7fb49c1b9600) at dh_lib.c:194
> >>> #2  0x00007fb4aa84dbef in tls_shutdown_serverengine () at imap/tls.c:1311
> >>> #3  0x0000000000404075 in conn_free (C=0x7fb4840009f0) at  
> >>> imap/mupdate.c:379
> >>> #4  0x00000000004062c0 in thread_main (rock=0x0) at imap/mupdate.c:1330
> >>> #5  0x00007fb4a771add5 in start_thread (arg=0x7fb4a22d9700) at
> >>> pthread_create.c:308
> >>> #6  0x00007fb4a718fb3d in clone () at
> >>> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Further information, as DH_free is in the bt, we have NOT configured
> >>> dh_params in
> >>> our ssl certificate/key or in the imapd.conf
> >>>
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >      Michael Menge
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > M.Menge                                Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316
> > Universität Tübingen                   Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912
> > Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung          mail:  
> > michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
> > Wächterstraße 76
> > 72074 Tübingen
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Universität Tübingen                   Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912
> Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung          mail:  
> michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
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