Comment 5 for bug 1533349

Ah, so the problem is that gdb is not showing most of the addresses in the frames on "bt", so that the address signature cannot be computed. I tried to retrace this manually on xenial. With both the current ifupdown version (i. e. report vs. current xenial version mismatch) as well as the actual 0.8.6-1ubuntu1 version I can reproduce this stack trace with missing addresses.

Interestingly, "info f" does show a PC for the ones missing an address in "bt":

(gdb) bt
#0 __GI_strncpy (s1=0xbe86aa6f "", s1@entry=0xbe86aa70 "lo", s2=0x5 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x5>, n=n@entry=80)
    at strncpy.c:41
#1 0x00013032 in strncpy (__len=80, __src=<optimized out>, __dest=0xbe86aa70 "lo")
    at /usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bits/string3.h:126
#2 do_interface (target_iface=<optimized out>) at main.c:846
#3 0x00011994 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0xbe86ade8) at main.c:1146
(gdb) info f 0
Stack frame at 0xbe86a9b0:
 pc = 0xb6e9a124 in __GI_strncpy (strncpy.c:41); saved pc = 0x13032
 called by frame at 0xbe86ac40
 source language c.
 Arglist at 0xbe86a9a0, args: s1=0xbe86aa6f "", s1@entry=0xbe86aa70 "lo", s2=0x5 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x5>,
    n=n@entry=80
 Locals at 0xbe86a9a0, Previous frame's sp is 0xbe86a9b0
 Saved registers:
  r4 at 0xbe86a9a0, r5 at 0xbe86a9a4, r6 at 0xbe86a9a8, lr at 0xbe86a9ac
(gdb) info f 1
Stack frame at 0xbe86ac40:
 pc = 0x13032 in strncpy (/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bits/string3.h:126); saved pc = 0x11994
 inlined into frame 2, caller of frame at 0xbe86a9b0
 source language c.
 Arglist at unknown address.
 Locals at unknown address, Previous frame's sp is 0xbe86a9b0
 Saved registers:
  r4 at 0xbe86a9a0, r5 at 0xbe86a9a4, r6 at 0xbe86a9a8, lr at 0xbe86a9ac
(gdb) info f 2
Stack frame at 0xbe86ac40:
 pc = 0x13032 in do_interface (main.c:846); saved pc = 0x11994
 called by frame at 0xbe86ac90, caller of frame at 0xbe86ac40
 source language c.
 Arglist at 0xbe86a9b0, args: target_iface=<optimized out>
 Locals at 0xbe86a9b0, Previous frame's sp is 0xbe86ac40
 Saved registers:
  r4 at 0xbe86ac1c, r5 at 0xbe86ac20, r6 at 0xbe86ac24, r7 at 0xbe86ac28, r8 at 0xbe86ac2c, r9 at 0xbe86ac30, r10 at 0xbe86ac34,
  r11 at 0xbe86ac38, lr at 0xbe86ac3c
(gdb) info f 3
Stack frame at 0xbe86ac90:
 pc = 0x11994 in main (main.c:1146); saved pc = 0xb6e59772
 caller of frame at 0xbe86ac40
 source language c.
 Arglist at 0xbe86ac40, args: argc=<optimized out>, argv=0xbe86ade8
 Locals at 0xbe86ac40, Previous frame's sp is 0xbe86ac90
 Saved registers:
  r4 at 0xbe86ac6c, r5 at 0xbe86ac70, r6 at 0xbe86ac74, r7 at 0xbe86ac78, r8 at 0xbe86ac7c, r9 at 0xbe86ac80, r10 at 0xbe86ac84,
  r11 at 0xbe86ac88, lr at 0xbe86ac8c

Reading ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gdb/html_chapter/gdb_7.html suggests that -fomit-frame-pointer could be responsible for this. It also mentions a missing address for the topmost frame. Following the suggestion there, I think we should make crash_signature_addresses() get some fallbacks. In particular, here:

                addr = line.split()[1]
                if not addr.startswith('0x'):
                    continue

instead of ignoring that frame, we should check if the frame has a file:line reference as in

   #2 do_interface (target_iface=<optimized out>) at main.c:846

and use that as a signature of the current frame instead of ignoring it. If that also isn't present, it could then fall back to the function name; that isn't particularly precise as it could happen anywhere in that function, but it's still better than skipping the frame completely.

WDYT?