[gnutls-devel] crash inside of wrap_nettle_rnd?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 02/12/2014 11:21 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
> <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
>> Hello Jason,
>>  Unfortunately these backtraces don't provide much information. You'll
>> need debugging symbols (most probably included in your distribution as a
>> separate package). Also the version of gnutls being used is important.
>> It would be best to try with the latest released version.
> 
> This occurs with 3.2.10. I believe it also occurred with 3.2.9. I'll
> recompile with more debug granularity (I'm on gentoo hardened) and
> report back.

It would be useful to know if there is a version of gnutls that this
used to work well.

>> However, the only reason for a mutex call to fail is if the mutex isn't
>> initialized. Is gnutls_global_init() executed successful in the program
>> you use?
> gnutls_global_init is executed.
> What's interesting is that the error only happens when weechat loads
> the python plugin. I'm not too familiar how the python plugin works
> internally, but I imagine it's possible it spawns a thread. Could
> there be some situation in which all new threads also need to call
> gnutls_global_init? I'm speculating here, but maybe it has something
> to do with this...

Not really. It only needs to be called once. However, could there be
someone calling gnutls_global_deinit()? That would be another case where
the mutex could be in an unstable state.

regards,
Nikos