[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash version 7.1.1 is available

Download from: http://people.redhat.com/anderson or https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/releases The master branch serves as a development branch that will contain all patches that are queued for the next release: $ git clone git://github.com/crash-utility/crash.git Changelog: - Fix for two minor issues with the "net" command. Without the patch, the "net -a" option appends its correct output with the command's "Usage:" message; and if either the "net -x" or "net -d" options are used without also specifying "-s" or "-S", the error message would indicate "net: illegal flag: 800000" or "net: illegal flag: 1000000" instead of showing the command's "Usage:" message. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - If the kernel (live or dumpfile) has the TAINT_LIVEPATCH bit set, or if the Red Hat "kpatch" module is installed, the tag "[LIVEPATCH]" will be displayed next to the kernel name in the initial system banner and by the "sys" command. This new tag replaces the "[KPATCH]" tag that was introduced in crash-7.0.7. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Addressed three Coverity Scan complaints in vmware_vmss.c: 50:leaked_storage: Variable "fp" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to. 53:leaked_storage: Variable "fp" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to. 256:warning: Use of memory after it is freed (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Remove the LKCD-only "propeller spinner" seen when a dumpfile read requires more than 2048 page header accesses. This was put in place because of the non-random-access design of LKCD dumpfiles. Without the patch, the spinner display is intermingled with command output, which complicates the parsing of the output. (watters.sam(a)gmail.com) - Fix to support the Linux version increment from 3 to 4. Without the patch, both dumpfile and live sessions fail during initialization, issuing the message "WARNING: kernel version inconsistency between vmlinux and dumpfile" or "WARNING: kernel version inconsistency between vmlinux and live memory", followed by the nonsensical fatal error message "crash: incompatible arguments: vmlinux is not SMP -- vmcore is SMP" or "crash: incompatible arguments: vmlinux is not SMP -- live system is SMP". To prevent unexpected kernel version bumps in the future, support has been added for version 5. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Add support for more than 16TB of physical memory space in the SADUMP dumpfile format. Without the patch, there is a limitation caused by several 32-bit members of dump_header structure, in particular the max_mapnr member, which overflows if the dumpfile contains more than 16TB of physical memory space. The header_version member of the dump_header structure has been increased from 0 to 1 in this extended new format, and the new 64-bit members will be used. (d.hatayama(a)jp.fujitsu.com) - Fix for command lines that are redirected to a pipe. Without the patch, if an external piped-to command contains a quoted string that includes a "|" character, the command fails with the message "crash: pipe operation failed". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for insecure temporary file usage in _rl_tropen() as reported by readline library CVE-2014-2524. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - When the gdb-<version>.patch file has changed and a rebuild is done from within a previously-existing build tree, the "patch -N" option is used to ignore patches that have been previously applied; this patch also applies the "patch -r-" option to prevent unnecessary .rej files from being created. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix to account for Xen hypervisor's "domain" structure member name change from "is_paused_by_controller" to "controller_pause_count". Without the patch, in Xen 4.2.5 and later, the crash session fails during initialization with the error message 'crash: invalid structure member offset: domain_is_paused_by_controller". (dietmar.hahn(a)ts.fujitsu.com) - During initialization, reject useless ARM64 "(A)" and "(a)" absolute symbols that are below the text region. Without the patch, several recently-introduced absolute symbols have been introduced into the kernel, which will be displayed by "sym -l" prior to the first kernel virtual address symbol, and will show up in command output where memory values are translated into kernel symbol references. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for ARM64 kernels to account for changes in the virtual memory layout introduced in Linux 3.17. The vmalloc region end address, and the vmemmap start and end addresses are now calculated at kernel build time, because they depend upon the size of a struct page. Accordingly, the crash utility needs to calculate those three address values dynamically, after the embedded gdb module has initialized. Without the patch, reads of page structures return invalid data due to incorrect virtual-to-physical translations of memory in the vmemmap range. This in turn causes commands that require page structure contents to fail or show invalid data, such as "kmem -p", "kmem -[sS]", and the "kmem -[fF]" options. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix to support ELF vmcore dumpfiles whose PT_LOAD file offset values of their respective memory segments are not laid out sequentially from low to high in the dumpfile. This has only been seen in ELF dumpfiles created by VMware's "vmss2core -M" facility. Without the patch, the crash session may fail during initialization, either with the message "cannot malloc ELF header buffer", or "crash: <dumpfile>: not a supported file format". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Enhancement to the support of VMware .vmss suspended state dumpfiles. There may be holes in the memory address saved for PCI, etc. In such cases, the memory dump is divided into regions. With this patch, up to 3 memory regions are supported. (hfu(a)vmware.com) - Fortified the error handling of task gathering from the pid_hash[] chains during session initialization. If a chain has been corrupted, the patch prevents the sequence from entering an infinite loop, and the error messages associated with corrupt/invalid chains have been updated to report the pid_hash[] index number. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Implemented a new STRDUPBUF() utility that will duplicate an existing string into a buffer allocated with GETBUF(). As is the case with any buffer allocated with GETBUF(), it is only meant to exist during the life-span of the current command. If it is not explicitly freed via FREEBUF(), then it will be freed automatically prior to the next command. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Implemented a new fill_struct_member_data() function that gathers a bundle of data that describes a structure member. The function receives a pointer to a struct_member_data structure, in which the caller has initialized the "structure" and "member" name pointers: struct struct_member_data { char *structure; char *member; long type; long unsigned_type; long length; long offset; long bitpos; long bitsize; }; A gdb "printm" command is crafted using those two fields, and the output of the command is used to initialize the remaining six fields. Adapted from Qiao Nuohan's "pstruct" extension module. (anderson(a)redhat.com, qiaonuohan(a)cn.fujitsu.com) - Implemented a new "runq -c cpu(s)" option to display the run queue data of specified cpus. It can be used in conjunction with all runq command options. The cpus must be specified in a comma- and/or dash-separated list; for examples, "3", "1,8,9", "1-23", or "1,8-15". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Build extension modules that utilize the generic extensions/Makefile with -g. In addition, build the snap.c extension module with -g. (rabinv(a)axis.com) - Several fixes, updates, and enhancements for 32-bit MIPS support: (1) The MIPS general purpose registers in the elf_gregset_t don't start at index 0 but at index 6. (2) Adjust for the kernel's pt_regs structure changes between kernel versions. For example, fields are inserted into the middle based on build time options, and the amount of padding at the head of the structure was changed relatively recently. To handle this, split the structure definition into two parts and get the offsets of these two parts dynamically. (3) Do not display each parsed kernel symbol during initialization when invoked with "crash -d8". (4) Add support for loading raw MIPS ramdump dumpfiles. (5) Add support for compressed kdump dumpfiles. (rabinv(a)axis.com) - Fix for a typo in "help foreach", and a fix for a spelling error in "help input". (weijg.fnst(a)cn.fujitsu.com) - Fix for "and and" and "the the" typos in the README file. (weijg.fnst(a)cn.fujitsu.com) - Fix to address the Xen 4.5.0 hypervisor symbol name change from "dom0" to "hardware_domain". Without the patch, the crash session fails with the error message "crash: cannot resolve: dom0". (dslutz(a)verizon.com) - Fix for a regression in crash-7.1.0 that causes failures when the "crash -t" option is run on a live system, and when analyzing remote Linux kernels. Without the patch, "crash -t" on a live system fails with the message "crash: cannot open remote memory source: /dev/mem", and attempts to analyze a Linux kernel remotely just shows the kernel timestamp and exits immediately. (dslutz(a)verizon.com, anderson(a)redhat.com) - Speed up the session invocation time of "flattened" format dumpfiles created by the makedumpfile(8) facility. When sorting the blocks of memory by their intended ELF or compressed kdump file offsets, the patch replaces the bubble-sort method that is currently used with an insertion sort method. (dslutz(a)verizon.com) - Remove the non-existent "-L" option from the "ps" command's mutually- exclusive options error message. (vvs(a)parallels.com) - Fix for the "irq", "mount", "kmem -p" and "kmem -v" commands when they are used in an input file. If more than one of any of those four commands are used in an input file, the output of the second and subsequent command instances will not display their respective command headers. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Implemented a new "kmem -m" option that is similar to "kmem -p", but it allows the user to specify the page struct members to be displayed. The option takes a comma-separated list of one or more page struct members, which will be displayed following the page structure address. The "flags" member will always be expressed in hexadecimal format, and the "_count" and "_mapcount" members will always be expressed in decimal format. Otherwise, all other members will be displayed in hexadecimal format unless the current output radix is 10 and the member is a signed/unsigned integer. Members that are data structures may be specified by the data structure's member name, or expanded to specify a member of that data structure. For example, "-m lru" refers to a list_head data structure, in which case both the list_head.next and list_head.prev pointer values will be displayed; if "-m lru.next" is specified, just the list_head.next value will be displayed. (atomlin(a)redhat.com, anderson(a)redhat.com) - Support enhancement for the 32-bit MIPS architecture that retrieves the per-cpu registers from the NT_PRSTATUS notes stored in the header of compressed kdump dumpfiles. (rabinv(a)axis.com) - Fix to remove an invalid warning message on ARM64 if a crash session is invoked with the "-d<number>" debug flag. Without the patch, the invalid message is "WARNING: SPARSEMEM_EX: questionable section values". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Remove the leftover ".constructor" build file in the extensions subdirectory when "make extensions" is complete, and update the top-level .gitignore file to ignore post-build extensions subdirectory files. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for a segmentation violation generated by the "help -[n|D]" options on ARM64 compressed kdumps. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Additional output for the "help [-D|-n]" options on ARM64. For ELF kdump vmcores and compressed kdumps, the elf_prstatus structure in each NT_PRSTATUS note will be translated. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - The "help -r" option has been extended to dump the ARM64 registers stored in each per-cpu NT_PRSTATUS note in compressed kdump and ELF kdump dumpfiles. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for the ARM64 page size determination on Linux 4.1 and later kernels. Without the patch, the crash session fails during initialization with the message "crash: invalid/unsupported page size: 98304" on kernels with 64K pages. On kernels with 4K pages, the message is "crash: invalid/unsupported page size: 6144". In addition, the "-p <page-size>" command line override option had no effect on ARM64; that has been fixed as well. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for the DATE display in the initial system banner and by the "sys" command to account for the Linux 3.17 change that moved the "timekeeper" symbol and structure into a containing tk_core structure; the "shadow_timekeeper" timekeeper will be used as an alternative. Without the patch, the DATE shows something within a few hours of the Linux epoch, such as "Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969". (kmcmartin(a)redhat.com) - Fixes for the translation of ARM64 PTEs, as displayed by the "vm -p" and "vtop" commands. Without the patch, if "vm -p" references a swapped-out page on Linux 4.0 and later kernels, the SWAP location may indicate "(unknown swap location)", and will show an invalid OFFSET value; on Linux 3.13 and later kernels, running "vtop" on a user virtual address incorrectly translates the PTE contents of swapped out pages by showing a PHYSICAL address and FLAGS translation instead of the SWAP device and OFFSET. It is possible that there may be PTE bit translation errors on other kernel versions; the patch addresses the changes in ARM64 PTE bit definitions made in Linux 3.11, 3.13, and 4.0 kernels. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Enhanced the "struct.member" display capability of the "struct", "union", "task", "list" and "tree" commands. If a specified structure member contains an embedded structure, the output may be restricted to just the embedded structure by expressing the .member argument as "member.member". If a specified structure member is an array, the output may be restricted to a single array element by expressing the .member argument as "member[index]". Furthermore, these embedded member specifications may extend beyond one level deep, for example, by expressing the member argument as "member.member.member", or "member[index].member". (Alexandr_Terekhov(a)epam.com, anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for any command that passes strings to gdb for evaluation, where the string contains a parentheses-within-parentheses expression along with a ">" or ">>" operator inside the outermost set of parentheses. Without the patch, a command such as the following fails like so: crash> p ((1+1) >> 1) p: gdb request failed: p ((1+1) crash> (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for the handling of ARM64 kernel module per-cpu symbols. Without the patch, if the debuginfo data of an ARM64 kernel module that contains a per-cpu section is loaded by "mod -s <module>" or "mod -S", commands such as "bt" or "sym" may incorrectly translate the module's virtual addresses to symbol names. (Jan.Karlsson(a)sonymobile.com)