Bug#669061: apt: http method dies on sparc
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 00:22, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> I guess you're not a DD, and so don't have access to the porter
> machines?
Correct guess, but I am adventures enough to work around it:
I had a lot of fun today trying to compile apt=0.9.1 in a qemu-sparc
debian etch image from aurel32 [0]. Took ages and (surprisingly) few
changes to compile with g++-4.1 and the environment in general. :)
It seems to be indeed the way the sha256 and sha512 checksums are
calculated. To make it a bit obscure: we have a testcase checking them
and they run successfully producing the correct output.
(for reference: test/libapt/hashsums_test.cc)
The bug seems only to be triggered if a checksum is "slowly" build
as it is the case in the http transport while downloading.
To reproduce you can use:
>>>>>
$ cat request
601 Configuration
Config-Item: Acquire::http::DependOnSTDIN=0
600 Acquire URI
URI: http://www.debian.org/index.html
Filename: debian.index.html
$ cat request | /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
<<<<<
(the empty line at the end of 'request' is important!)
What you should see is a '201 URI Done' message at the
end which includes a few checksums. Instead sparc instantly
crashes after starting the download ('200 URI Start') with a
bus error.
etch's gdb is crashing on me with internal errors[2] while trying to
debug this and warns me, that it might be completely wrong about
the following, but it seems to be the case that the very first call
to SHA256_Transform in apt-pkg/contrib/sha2_internal.cc [1] fails
on line 467 (which is intended to be big endian code)
called from SHA256_Final on line 595 (=first occurrence).
[apt uses the not unrolled transform method, but the unrolled seems
to have a similar issue as it crashes, too]
SHA512 is very similar, so i presume it has the very same problem.
As i run out of time for today i am leaving these dangling pointers as
they are for now and hope someone can connect the dots. CC'ing sparc
mailinglist as they have properly a good chance to find the problem
before i manage to warp my head around it…
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
[0] http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/sparc/
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/apt-pkg/contrib/sha2_internal.cc#L441
[2] internal-error: register_size: Asseration 'regnum >= 0 && regnum <
(NUM_REGS + NUM_PSEUDO_REGS)' failed.
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