[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq 2.81-3 segmentation fault for no apparent reason

Dominik dl6er at dl6er.de
Fri Jul 3 09:22:10 BST 2020


Hey Mikko,

there is a quite substantial bug in v2.81 concerning TCP forks which is
why v2.82 is already on its way. If you feel comfortable with compiling
dnsmasq yourself, then grab the latest source of dnsmasq from here:

http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=summary

Best,
Dominik

On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 09:49 +0200, Mikko Laaksonen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First, my apologies for most likely doing this the wrong way. I could
> not find the right way, so I will start here in my quest to find the
> right way.
> 
> dnsmasq 2.81-3 on a Fedora 32 with kernel 5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 has
> made a habit of dying in the middle of the night, for no reason that
> I can see. While I am happily asleep, systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service:
> Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV will appear in the
> system log, some 5 hours after any previous log entry from dnsmasq.
> Downgrading to 2.80 seems to fix this but does not seem to be an
> actual fix. Naturally, this does not happen every night.
> 
> What can I do to debug the real cause of the annoyance?
> 
> Thank you
> 
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