[ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd 2.7.3 crash

Nicolas Bouliane nbouliane at digitalocean.com
Thu May 3 17:47:16 UTC 2018


>
>
> > Let me know if you need more information. We are curious to know if it
> is a
> > know bug, or if it is something new.
>
> It's not obviously a known bug.  It might be related to memory
> corruption, because SIGBUS can be caused by reading or writing a wild
> pointer and calloc(), which is at the top of the backtrace, can
> definitely do either one if there's been memory corruption.  OVS 2.7.4
> has a few memory corruption fixes, relative to OVS 2.7.3, so possibly
> it's a bug that's already fixed.
>
> Is this something that you see repeatedly?
>

We don't see that repeatedly for now but I will keep an eye on it.
If we start seeing it more, we might indeed upgrade to OVS 2.7.4.
Thanks for you answer !

Cheers,
Nicolas Bouliane
Digital Ocean
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