jsynacek@redhat.com wrote:

jsynacek@redhat.com writes:

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I bisected the problem and the following commit is the problem: commit 6ad38fef3fe63ff86c1e6cff3c6330353b21cc24 Author: Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org Date: Wed Jan 14 19:05:17 2015 +0000

 Fix typo in 45146ba21a9ee494e7058ca7a173fcc6b27df744

diff --git a/servers/slapd/schema_init.c b/servers/slapd/schema_init.c index 46d1c6d..08e733f 100644 --- a/servers/slapd/schema_init.c +++ b/servers/slapd/schema_init.c @@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ UTF8StringValidate( if( LDAP_UTF8_OFFSET( (char *)u ) != len ) return LDAP_INVALID_SYNTAX; }

•   if( u >= len ) {
  

•   if( u > end ) {
             return LDAP_INVALID_SYNTAX;
     }
  

This commit obviously doesn't have anything to do with the crash. I'm not sure why the crash is triggered from this commit onward.

The real issue seems to be the attribute usage in mdb.c:

# define ESECT __attribute__ ((section("text_env")))

If ESECT is simply removed, the crash goes away.

Sounds like a ppc64 binutils bug then. You can #if 0 that definition for ppc64 if you want, since it's only a small optimization for text segment size. But if ppc64 is using standard ELF binary format, this should not be breaking.