Comment 0 for bug 1695789

It has brought to my attention that multipath in trusty has been crashing randomly. Some dumps were given to me and I was able to generate some others. I have also generated valgrind output to help me with these random crashes.

Crashes:

#0 malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7f5b58000020) at malloc.c:4149
#1 0x00007f5b62df3cf8 in _int_malloc (av=0x7f5b58000020, bytes=16384) at malloc.c:3423
#2 0x00007f5b62df66d0 in __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=16384) at malloc.c:2891
#3 0x00007f5b638134d7 in dm_task_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1
#4 0x00007f5b6314be5c in dm_map_present (str=0x7f5b58000990 "lun02") at devmapper.c:304
#5 0x0000000000404ac7 in ev_add_map (dev=, alias=, vecs=) at main.c:257
#6 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

And:

#0 0x00007f13a5933c37 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
#1 0x00007f13a5937028 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
#2 0x00007f13a59702a4 in __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=1, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f13a5a81ef0 "") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
#3 0x00007f13a597c56e in malloc_printerr (ptr=<optimized out>, str=0x7f13a5a82020 "double free or corruption (out)", action=1) at malloc.c:4996
#4 _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3840
#5 0x00007f13a5cdbe86 in free_multipath (mpp=0x7f138c033d60, free_paths=0) at structs.c:174
#6 0x00007f13a5cfe117 in _remove_map (mpp=0x7f138c033d60, vecs=0x8adaa0, stop_waiter=1, purge_vec=1) at structs_vec.c:143
#7 0x00007f13a5cfe175 in remove_map_and_stop_waiter (mpp=0x7f138c033d60, vecs=0x8adaa0, purge_vec=1) at structs_vec.c:156
#8 0x0000000000406b4d in mpvec_garbage_collector (vecs=<error reading variable: can't compute CFA for this frame>) at main.c:950
...
#14 0x00000000004076b7 in checkerloop (ap=<error reading variable: can't compute CFA for this frame>) at main.c:1163

Please follow my analysis in the subsequent comments.