[YARN-7857] -fstack-check compilation flag causes binary incompatibility for container-executor between RHEL 6 and RHEL 7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: nodemanager
• Assignee: Jim Brennan
• Reporter: Jim Brennan
• Created: 30/Jan/18 16:36
• Updated: 07/Feb/18 18:35
• Resolved: 07/Feb/18 18:35

Description

The segmentation fault in container-executor reported in YARN-7796 appears to be due to a binary compatibility issue with the -fstack-check flag that was added in YARN-6721

Based on my testing, a container-executor (without the patch from YARN-7796) compiled on RHEL 6 with the -fstack-check flag always hits this segmentation fault when run on RHEL 7. But if you compile without this flag, the container-executor runs on RHEL 7 with no problems. I also verified this with a simple program that just does the copy_file.

I think we need to either remove this flag, or find a suitable alternative.

Issue Links

• is caused by: YARN-6721 container-executor should have stack checking
• relates to: YARN-7796 Container-executor fails with segfault on certain OS configurations