[Valgrind-users] Valgrind crash on armv7l

[<Fra...@we...>]

Hi,
 
I have an embedded linux system similar to the BeagleBone. It runs buildroot on it.

  # uname -a
  Linux xenon 4.4.21 #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 8 12:19:53 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
 
Within the last days, I enabled valgrind in buildroot (version 3.11.0) to examine memory issues in some programs.
Most of the time, when I start valgrind like this:
  # valgrind --tool=memcheck <path to my program> 
it exits with a segmentation fault. I tried different programs, small and big, but this does not really seem to make a difference. Most of the time, the output isn't really verbose:
 # valgrind --tool=memcheck /path/to/program
==470== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==470== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==470== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==470== Command: /path/to/program
==470==
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


But sometimes I have crashes like this:

 # valgrind /path/to/otherprogram
==443== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==443== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==443== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==443== Command: /path/to/otherprogram
==443==
--443-- warning: DiCfSI 0x38012f58 .. 0x38952f73 is huge; length = 9699356 (NONE)
--443-- DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled CFI instruction 0:36
--443-- VALGRIND INTERNAL ERROR: Valgrind received a signal 11 (SIGSEGV) - exiting
--443-- si_code=1;  Faulting address: 0x4200D858;  sp: 0x624b4da0

valgrind: the 'impossible' happened:
   Killed by fatal signal

host stacktrace:
==443==    at 0x38061360: vgPlain_allocEltPA (m_poolalloc.c:126)

sched status:
  running_tid=1

Thread 1: status = VgTs_Runnable (lwpid 443)
==443==    at 0x4019AA4: mmap (mmap.c:36)


For me, it looks like an internal error. But perhaps I just missed some important setting to let valgrind run successfully? Any ideas?

best regards,
Frank