FS#40026 - [traceroute] traceroute --mtu segfaults on kernel 3.14, works fine on 3.10-lts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by tuvoc (tuvoc) - Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 13:22 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 27 July 2014, 18:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

'traceroute --mtu' segfaults with kernel 3.14 and possibly others. works normally on kernel 3.10-lts. a normal traceroute call, such as 'traceroute 8.8.8.8' still works.

tested on two different x86_64 installs.



Additional info:
traceroute 2.0.19-2
segfault at 5 ip 0000000000404df9 sp 00007fffff22dcc0 error 4 in traceroute[400000+c000]



Steps to reproduce:
traceroute --mtu 8.8.8.8
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 27 July 2014, 18:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  traceroute 2.0.20-1 in [testing]
Comment by Kevin Cox (kevincox) - Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 13:13 GMT
Experiencing the same issue:

% traceroute --mtu google.ca
traceroute to google.ca (74.125.226.127), 30 hops max, 65000 byte packetszsh: segmentation fault traceroute --mtu google.ca

% uname -a
Linux kevinbeast 3.15.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 09:32:20 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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