Bug#754702: libapache2-mod-perl2: Apache2 "comm" field in /proc/[pid]/stat is changed to full path when mod_perl is enabled

Frank Fegert fra.nospam.nk at gmx.de
Sun Jul 13 13:49:23 UTC 2014


Package: libapache2-mod-perl2
Version: 2.0.7-3
Severity: minor

Hello,

when enabling mod_perl, the "comm" field in /proc/[pid]/stat of the Apache2
processes is changed to the full path of the Apache2 executable and subsequently
truncated to 15+NUL characters. Probably not an issue by itself, but i breaks
e.g. monitoring tools like Nagios/NRPE which look at the process name either
directly in /proc/[pid]/stat or through commands like "ps".

Example without mod_perl:

    # service apache2 stop
    [ ok ] Stopping web server: apache2 ... waiting .
    # a2dismod perl
    Module perl disabled.
    To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
      service apache2 restart
    # service apache2 start
    [ ok ] Starting web server: apache2.
    # ps -ef | grep apache2
    root      8196     1  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8199  8196  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8200  8196  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8201  8196  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8202  8196  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8203  8196  0 15:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    # cat /proc/8{1,2}{9,0}*/stat
    8196 (apache2) S 1 8196 8196 0 -1 4202560 [...]
    8199 (apache2) S 8196 8196 8196 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8200 (apache2) S 8196 8196 8196 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8201 (apache2) S 8196 8196 8196 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8202 (apache2) S 8196 8196 8196 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8203 (apache2) S 8196 8196 8196 0 -1 4202816 [...]

Example with mod_perl:

    # service apache2 stop
    [ ok ] Stopping web server: apache2 ... waiting .
    # a2enmod perl
    Enabling module perl.
    To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
      service apache2 restart
    # service apache2 start
    [ ok ] Starting web server: apache2.
    # ps -ef | grep apache2
    root      8291     1  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8296  8291  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8297  8291  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8298  8291  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8299  8291  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    www-data  8300  8291  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
    # cat /proc/8{2,3}{9,0}*/stat
    8291 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 1 8291 8291 0 -1 4202560 [...]
    8296 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 8291 8291 8291 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8297 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 8291 8291 8291 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8298 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 8291 8291 8291 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8299 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 8291 8291 8291 0 -1 4202816 [...]
    8300 (/usr/sbin/apach) S 8291 8291 8291 0 -1 4202816 [...]

Since i can't assess the implications, could you please consider adopting this
patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=567625&action=diff

Thanks & best regards,

Frank Fegert


-- Package-specific info:
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1. Problem Description:

  [DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM HERE]

2. Used Components and their Configuration:

*** mod_perl version 2.000007

*** using /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/BuildConfig.pm

*** Makefile.PL options:
  MP_APR_LIB     => aprext
  MP_APXS        => /usr/bin/apxs2
  MP_CCOPTS      => -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
  MP_COMPAT_1X   => 1
  MP_GENERATE_XS => 1
  MP_INCLUDE_DIR => /usr/include/apache2 /usr/include/apr-1.0
  MP_LIBNAME     => mod_perl
  MP_TRACE       => 0
  MP_USE_DSO     => 1
  MP_USE_GTOP    => 1
  MP_USE_STATIC  => 0


*** The httpd binary was not found


*** (apr|apu)-config linking info

(apr|apu)-config scripts were not found



*** /usr/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-4-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    uname='linux babin 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Dldflags= -Wl,-z,relro -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-z,relro -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.14 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.14 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Duse64bitint -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Ui_libutil -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.14.2 -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -g',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.14.2
    gnulibc_version='2.13'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT
                        USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
                        USE_REENTRANT_API
  Locally applied patches:
    DEBPKG:debian/arm_thread_stress_timeout - http://bugs.debian.org/501970 Raise the timeout of ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t to accommodate slower build hosts
    DEBPKG:debian/cpan_definstalldirs - Provide a sensible INSTALLDIRS default for modules installed from CPAN.
    DEBPKG:debian/db_file_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/340047 Remove overly restrictive DB_File version check.
    DEBPKG:debian/doc_info - Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information.
    DEBPKG:debian/enc2xs_inc - http://bugs.debian.org/290336 Tweak enc2xs to follow symlinks and ignore missing @INC directories.
    DEBPKG:debian/errno_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/343351 Remove Errno version check due to upgrade problems with long-running processes.
    DEBPKG:debian/libperl_embed_doc - http://bugs.debian.org/186778 Note that libperl-dev package is required for embedded linking
    DEBPKG:fixes/respect_umask - Respect umask during installation
    DEBPKG:debian/writable_site_dirs - Set umask approproately for site install directories
    DEBPKG:debian/extutils_set_libperl_path - EU:MM: Set location of libperl.a to /usr/lib
    DEBPKG:debian/no_packlist_perllocal - Don't install .packlist or perllocal.pod for perl or vendor
    DEBPKG:debian/prefix_changes - Fiddle with *PREFIX and variables written to the makefile
    DEBPKG:debian/fakeroot - Postpone LD_LIBRARY_PATH evaluation to the binary targets.
    DEBPKG:debian/instmodsh_doc - Debian policy doesn't install .packlist files for core or vendor.
    DEBPKG:debian/ld_run_path - Remove standard libs from LD_RUN_PATH as per Debian policy.
    DEBPKG:debian/libnet_config_path - Set location of libnet.cfg to /etc/perl/Net as /usr may not be writable.
    DEBPKG:debian/m68k_thread_stress - http://bugs.debian.org/517938 http://bugs.debian.org/495826 Disable some threads tests on m68k for now due to missing TLS.
    DEBPKG:debian/mod_paths - Tweak @INC ordering for Debian
    DEBPKG:debian/module_build_man_extensions - http://bugs.debian.org/479460 Adjust Module::Build manual page extensions for the Debian Perl policy
    DEBPKG:debian/prune_libs - http://bugs.debian.org/128355 Prune the list of libraries wanted to what we actually need.
    DEBPKG:fixes/net_smtp_docs - [rt.cpan.org #36038] http://bugs.debian.org/100195 Document the Net::SMTP 'Port' option
    DEBPKG:debian/perlivp - http://bugs.debian.org/510895 Make perlivp skip include directories in /usr/local
    DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_definstalldirs - http://bugs.debian.org/533707 Configure CPANPLUS to use the site directories by default.
    DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_config_path - Save local versions of CPANPLUS::Config::System into /etc/perl.
    DEBPKG:debian/deprecate-with-apt - http://bugs.debian.org/580034 Point users to Debian packages of deprecated core modules
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-ccflags - [a190e64] http://bugs.debian.org/587901 [perl #92244] Make hints/gnu.sh append to $ccflags rather than overriding them
    DEBPKG:debian/squelch-locale-warnings - http://bugs.debian.org/508764 Squelch locale warnings in Debian package maintainer scripts
    DEBPKG:debian/skip-upstream-git-tests - Skip tests specific to the upstream Git repository
    DEBPKG:fixes/extutils-cbuilder-cflags - [011e8fb] http://bugs.debian.org/624460 [perl #89478] Append CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to their Config.pm counterparts in EU::CBuilder
    DEBPKG:fixes/module-build-home-directory - http://bugs.debian.org/624850 [rt.cpan.org #67893] Fix failing tilde test when run under a UID without a passwd entry
    DEBPKG:debian/patchlevel - http://bugs.debian.org/567489 List packaged patches for 5.14.2-21+deb7u1 in patchlevel.h
    DEBPKG:fixes/h2ph-multiarch - [e7ec705] http://bugs.debian.org/625808 [perl #90122] Make h2ph correctly search gcc include directories
    DEBPKG:fixes/index-tainting - [3b36395] http://bugs.debian.org/291450 [perl #64804] RT 64804: tainting with index() of a constant
    DEBPKG:fixes/document_makemaker_ccflags - http://bugs.debian.org/628522 [rt.cpan.org #68613] Document that CCFLAGS should include $Config{ccflags}
    DEBPKG:fixes/sys-syslog-socket-timeout-kfreebsd.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/627821 [rt.cpan.org #69997] Use a socket timeout on GNU/kFreeBSD to catch ICMP port unreachable messages
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-hints - http://bugs.debian.org/636609 Improve general GNU hints, needed for GNU/Hurd.
    DEBPKG:fixes/pod_fixes - [7698aed] http://bugs.debian.org/637816 Fix typos in several pod/perl*.pod files
    DEBPKG:debian/find_html2text - http://bugs.debian.org/640479 Configure CPAN::Distribution with correct name of html2text
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest_eval_hole - http://bugs.debian.org/644108 Close the eval "require $module" security hole in Digest->new($algorithm)
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-ndbm - [f0d0a20] [perl #102680] http://bugs.debian.org/645989 Add GNU/Hurd hints for NDBM_File
    DEBPKG:fixes/sysconf.t-posix - [8040185] [perl #102888] http://bugs.debian.org/646016 Fix hang in ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-largefile - [1fda587] [perl #103014] http://bugs.debian.org/645790 enable LFS on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_todo_syslog - http://bugs.debian.org/650093 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests in cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd_skip_itimer_virtual - [rt.cpan.org #72754] http://bugs.debian.org/650094 Skip interval timer tests in Time::HiRes on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_sigdispatch - http://bugs.debian.org/650188 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests op/sigdispatch.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_stack - http://bugs.debian.org/650175 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests dist/threads/t/stack.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_pipe - http://bugs.debian.org/650187 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests io/pipe.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_io_pipe - http://bugs.debian.org/650096 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests dist/IO/t/io_pipe.t
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_CPAN - http://bugs.debian.org/650448 [rt.cpan.org #73396] cpan/CPAN: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_CPANPLUS - http://bugs.debian.org/650450 [rt.cpan.org #73398] cpan/CPANPLUS: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_Test-Harness - http://bugs.debian.org/650451 [rt.cpan.org #73399] cpan/Test-Harness: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_Term-UI - http://bugs.debian.org/650452 [rt.cpan.org #73400] cpan/Term-UI: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/podlators_ae_ligature_fallback - http://bugs.debian.org/652851 Fix the ASCII fallback string for AE
    DEBPKG:fixes/fsf_postal_address - [de89470] Update references to the FSF's postal address
    DEBPKG:fixes/cpan_module_pod_fixes - [perl #106870] [rt.cpan.org #73447] [rt.cpan.org #73446] Fix POD formatting in Term-Cap and Pod-Parser
    DEBPKG:fixes/cgi_no_shellwords_pl - Use Text::ParseWords instead of shellwords.pl
    DEBPKG:fixes/path_max_fallback - [perl #109262] http://bugs.debian.org/656869 Don't use _POSIX_PATH_MAX as a fallback PATH_MAX
    DEBPKG:debian/makemaker-pasthru - http://bugs.debian.org/660195 [rt.cpan.org #28632] Make EU::MM pass LD through to recursive Makefile.PL invocations
    DEBPKG:fixes/propagate_tainted_errors.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663158 [perl #111654] properly propagate tainted errors
    DEBPKG:debian/perl5db-x-terminal-emulator.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/668490 Invoke x-terminal-emulator rather than xterm in perl5db.pl
    DEBPKG:fixes/socket_cache_propagate - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659075 [rt.cpan.org #61577] [perl #112736] sockdomain and socktype undef on newly accepted sockets
    DEBPKG:fixes/ipc_open3 - [perl #114454] http://bugs.debian.org/683894 IPC::Open3::open3(..., '-') broken
    DEBPKG:fixes/string_repeat_overrun - http://bugs.debian.org/689314 [b675304] avoid calling memset with a negative count
    DEBPKG:debian/cpan-missing-site-dirs - http://bugs.debian.org/688842 Fix CPAN::FirstTime defaults with nonexisting site dirs if a parent is writable
    DEBPKG:fixes/kfreebsd-overrides - http://bugs.debian.org/689713 [perl #115324] [7dc6565] Remove unnecessary overrides in gnukfreebsd and gnuknetbsd hints.
    DEBPKG:fixes/tainted-smartmatch - [be88a5c] http://bugs.debian.org/690571 [perl #93590] $tainted ~~ [...] failing
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-starter - [6e634c5] http://bugs.debian.org/690975 [perl #101710] Regression with /i, latin1 chars.
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-fold - [399fb9c] http://bugs.debian.org/690976 regexec.c: Fix "\x{FB01}\x{FB00}" =~ /ff/i
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-opposite-case - [dc91d5a] http://bugs.debian.org/690979 [perl #101970] /[[:lower:]]/i matches upper case
    DEBPKG:fixes/reading-glob-copy-handle - [fd1564b] http://bugs.debian.org/629363 [perl #92258] <$fh> hangs on a glob copy
    DEBPKG:fixes/smartmatch-rhs-precedence - http://bugs.debian.org/691102 [011be0b] Enforce Any ~~ Object smartmatch precedence
    DEBPKG:fixes/perlcheat-update - http://bugs.debian.org/691112 [ab0ae0a] Update PerlCheat to 5.14
    DEBPKG:fixes/cgi-cr-escaping - http://bugs.debian.org/693420 CR escaping for P3P and Set-Cookie headers
    DEBPKG:fixes/maketext-code-execution - [1735f6f] http://bugs.debian.org/695224 Fix misparsing of maketext strings.
    DEBPKG:fixes/storable-security-warning - [664f237] http://bugs.debian.org/695223 add a note about security concerns in Storable
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest-sha-doublefree - [rt.cpan.org #82655] http://bugs.debian.org/698172 [a8c6ff7] Fix a double-free bug in Digest::SHA
    DEBPKG:fixes/64bitint-signedness-wraparound - http://bugs.debian.org/698320 [94e529c] Avoid wraparound when casting unsigned size_t to signed ssize_t.
    DEBPKG:fixes/stdin-sigchld - http://bugs.debian.org/700171 [perl #116621] [be48bbe] add a couple missing LEAVEs in perlio_async_run()
    DEBPKG:fixes/hsplit-rehash - [d59e31f] http://bugs.debian.org/702296 Prevent premature hsplit() calls, and only trigger REHASH after hsplit()
    DEBPKG:fixes/encode-memleak - http://bugs.debian.org/702416 [5814803] Encode: Fixed a memory leak that occurred in the UTF-8 encoding.
    DEBPKG:fixes/threads_shared_elements_crash - [perl #119089] http://bugs.debian.org/718438 threads::shared should not crash if shared elements outlive their aggregate.
    DEBPKG:fixes/perlbug-patchlist - [3541c11] http://bugs.debian.org/710842 [perl #118433] Make perlbug look up the list of local patches at run time
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest_sha_double_free - [ee8c6f4] [rt.cpan.org #86295] http://bugs.debian.org/711206 maint-5.18: Digest-SHA crash fix in 5.85
    DEBPKG:fixes/pl_eval_start_use_after_free - [eae139f] [perl #115992] PL_eval_start use-after-free
    DEBPKG:fixes/regcomp_fix_segv - [ebb390a] [perl #115994] fix segv in regcomp.c:S_join_exact()
    DEBPKG:fixes/list_util_off_by_two - [623a911] fix off-by-two error in List::Util
    DEBPKG:fixes/sdbm_off_by_one - [7f5f08b] [perl #111586] sdbm.c: fix off-by-one access to global ".dir"
    DEBPKG:fixes/socket_unpack_sockaddr_un_heap_buffer_overflow - [e508642] [perl #111594] Socket::unpack_sockaddr_un heap-buffer-overflow
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Sep 30 2013 03:45:34
  %ENV:
    PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10="1"
  @INC:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.14
    /usr/share/perl/5.14
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

*** Packages of interest status:

Apache2            : -
Apache2::Request   : -
CGI                : 3.52
ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 6.57_05
LWP                : 6.04
mod_perl           : -
mod_perl2          : 2.000007


3. This is the core dump trace: (if you get a core dump):

  [CORE TRACE COMES HERE]

This report was generated by /usr/share/libapache2-mod-perl2/mp2bug on Sun Jul 13 13:20:21 2014 GMT.

-------------8<---------- End Bug Report --------------8<----------




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-perl2 depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [apache2]  2.2.22-13+deb7u2
ii  apache2.2-common               2.2.22-13+deb7u2
ii  libapr1                        1.4.6-3+deb7u1
ii  libaprutil1                    1.4.1-3
ii  libc6                          2.13-38+deb7u3
ii  libdevel-symdump-perl          2.08-4
ii  libperl5.14                    5.14.2-21+deb7u1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl                    6.04-1
ii  netbase                        5.0
ii  perl                           5.14.2-21+deb7u1
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.14.2]     5.14.2-21+deb7u1

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-perl2 recommends:
ii  libapache2-reload-perl  0.12-1
ii  libbsd-resource-perl    1.2904-1+b2

libapache2-mod-perl2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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