Re: panic: attempt to copy freed scalar caused by calling cgi->param with TryCatch since perl 5.19.7

According to our install documentation, these are the apache2 packages that
we install from apt on debian jessie:
apache2
apache2-mpm-prefork
libapache2-request-perl
libapache2-mod-perl2
libapache2-mod-perl2-dev
apache2-threaded-dev

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Michael Schout <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/17/15 8:13 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote:
>
> > Sep 17 15:08:31 eeepc kernel: [ 7737.194398] traps:
> /usr/sbin/apach[8769] general protection ip:7f1199d45d70 sp:7ffe7e3dc410
> error:0 in PPAddr.so[7f1199d45000+2000]
>
> I saw these first as well on debian jessie.  I fixed it by switching
> from mpm-event to mpm-prefork.
>
> I will say that I find debian's packaging to makes it pretty difficult
> with Apache::Test.  Apache::Test fails to generate a working config
> because it does not source the Include files in
> /etc/apache2/mods-enabled (among other things).  I much prefer to just
> build apache from scratch, which also eliminates the possibility that a
> vendor applied patch is causing any problems.
>
> Here is how I produced the panic on jessie, using nothing but vendor
> packages if you *really* do want to reproduce this:
>
> In fresh debian 8/jessie do this (I used a vagrant box):
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-request-perl \
>         libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-apreq2 \
>         apache2-dev git libtrycatch-perl
>
> git clone git://github.com/mschout/modperl-trycatch-bug
>
> cd modperl-trycatch-bug
>
> # now we have to jump through several hoops to make Apache::Test work
>
> # make symlinks that apache2.conf needs *sigh*
> ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-enabled t/mods-enabled
> ln -s /etc/apache2/conf-enabled t/conf-enabled
>
> # disable mpm-event and use mpm-prefork instead
> cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
> sudo rm -f mpm_event.*
> sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mpm_prefork.conf mpm_prefork.conf
> sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mpm_prefork.load mpm_prefork.load
> cd -
>
> # change IncludeOptional to Include
> sudo sed -i 's/IncludeOptional/Include/' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
>
> # need to source apache2 envvars
> source /etc/apache2/envvars
>
> # now actually run the test
> perl Makefile.PL -apxs /usr/bin/apxs2 \
>         -httpd_conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
>
> make test
>
> ... which fails ...
>
> t/logs/error_log contains:
>
> [Thu Sep 17 20:08:09.333854 2015] [perl:error] [pid 10319] [client
> 127.0.0.1:60632] panic: attempt to copy freed scalar 7f4e0971ec80 to
> 7f4e0971eb30 at
> /home/vagrant/modperl-trycatch-bug/blib/lib/Apache/TryCatch.pm line 20.\n
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael Schout
>



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