Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Critical
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.22.0
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None
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None
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RHEL 6.0 "Santiago"
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Reviewed
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Description
Due to the following bug in SSSD, functions like getpwuid_r are not thread-safe in RHEL 6.0 if sssd is specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf (as it is by default):
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/640
This causes many fetch failures in the case that the native libraries are available, since the SecureIO functions call getpwuid_r as part of fstat. By enabling -Xcheck:jni I get the following trace on JVM crash:
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- glibc detected *** /mnt/toolchain/JDK6u20-64bit/bin/java: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000003575741d23 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3575675676]
/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2(_nss_sss_getpwuid_r+0x11b)[0x7fe716cb42cb]
/lib64/libc.so.6(getpwuid_r+0xdd)[0x35756a5dfd]
- glibc detected *** /mnt/toolchain/JDK6u20-64bit/bin/java: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000003575741d23 ***
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