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What does backtrace () crash (SIGSEGV) do on Linux 64 bit

I am developing a linux application where I want to have a backtrace of all running threads at a specific frequency. so my custom signal handler SIGUSR1 (for all threads) calls backtrace ().

I get a crash (SIGSEGV) in my signal handler that came from calling backtrace (). I passed the correct arguments to the function specified on most sites. http://linux.die.net/man/3/backtrace .

what could cause backtrace () to crash in this case?

To add more details:

Which leads me to conclude that the crash inside the backtrace is frame 14 below. onMySignal is a SIGUSR1 signal handler, and it causes a postback.

OnMySignal sample code (copied from linux backtrace documentation)

pthread_mutex_lock( &sig_mutex );

int j, nptrs;
    #define SIZE 100
        void *buffer[100] = {NULL};//or void *buffer[100];
        char **strings;
       nptrs = backtrace(buffer, SIZE);
           pthread_mutex_unlock( &sig_mutex );

(gdb) where
#0  0x00000037bac0e9dd in raise () from 
#1  0x00002aaabda936b2 in skgesigOSCrash () from 
#2  0x00002aaabdd31705 in kpeDbgSignalHandler () 
#3  0x00002aaabda938c2 in skgesig_sigactionHandler () 
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x00000037ba030265 in raise () from 
#6  0x00000037ba031d10 in abort () from 
#7  0x00002b6cef82efd7 in os::abort(bool) () from 
#8  0x00002b6cef98205d in VMError::report_and_die() ()
#9  0x00002b6cef835655 in JVM_handle_linux_signal () 
#10 0x00002b6cef831bae in signalHandler(int, siginfo*, void*) ()
#11 <signal handler called>
#12 0x00000037be407638 in ?? () 
#13 0x00000037be4088bb in _Unwind_Backtrace () 
#14 0x00000037ba0e5fa8 in backtrace () 
#15 0x00002aaaaae3875f in onMySignal (signum=10,info=0x4088ec80, context=0x4088eb50)   
#16 <signal handler called>
#17 0x00002aaab4aa8acb in mxSession::setPartition(int)
#18 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#19 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

I hope that this will become more clear.

@janneb I wrote a signal handler. Mutex lock implementation for better synchronization.

@janneb I did not find in the document defining the API backtrace_symbols / backtrace, isync_signal_safe or not. and whether they should be used in a signal handler or not.

However, I removed backtrace_symbols from my Signal handler and don't use it anywhere, but my actual problem is crashing in backtrace () persit. and I don’t know why it is falling apart.

Edit 06.23.11: more details:

(gdb) where
#0  0x00000037bac0e9dd in raise () from 
#1  0x00002aaab98a36b2 in skgesigOSCrash () from 
#2  0x00002aaab9b41705 in kpeDbgSignalHandler () from 
#3  0x00002aaab98a38c2 in skgesig_sigactionHandler () from 
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x00000037ba030265 in raise () from 
#6  0x00000037ba031d10 in abort () from 
#7  0x00002ac003803fd7 in os::abort(bool) () from
#8  0x00002ac00395705d in VMError::report_and_die() () from 
#9  0x00002ac00380a655 in JVM_handle_linux_signal () from 
#10 0x00002ac003806bae in signalHandler(int, siginfo*, void*) () from 
#11 <signal handler called>
#12 0x00000037be407638 in ?? () from libgcc_s.so.1
#13 0x00000037be4088bb in _Unwind_Backtrace () from libgcc_s.so.1
#14 0x00000037ba0e5fa8 in backtrace () from libc.so.6
#15 0x00002aaaaae3875f in onMyBacktrace (signum=10, info=0x415d0eb0, context=0x415d0d80)
#16 <signal handler called>
#17 0x00000037ba071fa8 in _int_free () from libc.so.6
#18 0x00000000000007e0 in ?? ()
#19 0x000000005aab01a0 in ?? ()
#20 0x000000000000006f in ?? ()
#21 0x00000037ba075292 in realloc () from libc.so.6
#22 0x00002aaab6248c4e in Memory::reallocMemory(void*, unsigned long, char const*, int) ()

There was a failure while executing realloc and one of the addresses was like 0x00000000000007e0 (looks invalid).

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EDIT:

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gdb backtrace - gdb .

Shell script gdb :

#!/bin/bash
PID="$1"
[ -d "/proc/$PID" ] || PID=$(pgrep $1)
[ -d "/proc/$PID" ] || { echo "Can't find process: $PID" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }

[ -d "$TMPDIR" ] || TMPDIR=/tmp

BATCH=$(mktemp $TMPDIR/pstack.gdb.XXXXXXXXXXXXX)
echo "thread apply all bt" >"$BATCH"
echo "quit" >>"$BATCH"
gdb "/proc/$PID/exe" "$PID" -batch -x "$BATCH" </dev/null
rm "$BATCH"
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