gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv("STEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS")

[Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman]

sudden crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: gnome-shell 43~rc-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-16.16-generic 5.19.7
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.23.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 17 01:24:15 2022
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-06-25 (812 days ago)
InstallationMedia:

JournalErrors: -- No entries --
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 43~rc-2ubuntu2
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb42e23f13d <__GI_getenv+173>: cmp (%rbx),%r12w
 PC (0x7fb42e23f13d) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x556030920c76) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r12w" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 __GI_getenv (name=0x7fb42b5af43b "STEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ./stdlib/getenv.c:84
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI_getenv()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-04-25 (144 days ago)
UserGroups: N/A
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StacktraceTop:
 __GI_getenv (name=0x7fb42b5af43b "STEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS", name@entry=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ./stdlib/getenv.c:84
 __GI___libc_secure_getenv (name=name@entry=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ./stdlib/secure-getenv.c:29
 getenv_bool_secure (p=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ../src/basic/env-util.c:769
 device_set_syspath (device=0x7fb3d0157500, _syspath=_syspath@entry=0x7fb3d00404b0 "/sys/devices/platform", verify=verify@entry=true) at ../src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c:221
 sd_device_new_from_syspath (ret=ret@entry=0x7fb3d0157360, syspath=syspath@entry=0x7fb3d00404b0 "/sys/devices/platform") at ../src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c:264

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It looks like libudev is passing bogus memory to getenv().

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StacktraceTop:
 __GI_getenv (name=0x7fb42b5af43b "STEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS", name@entry=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ./stdlib/getenv.c:84
 __GI___libc_secure_getenv (name=name@entry=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ./stdlib/secure-getenv.c:29
 getenv_bool_secure (p=0x7fb42b5af439 "SYSTEMD_DEVICE_VERIFY_SYSFS") at ../src/basic/env-util.c:769
 device_set_syspath (device=0x7fb3d0157500, _syspath=_syspath@entry=0x7fb3d00404b0 "/sys/devices/platform", verify=verify@entry=true) at ../src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c:221
 sd_device_new_from_syspath (ret=ret@entry=0x7fb3d0157360, syspath=syspath@entry=0x7fb3d00404b0 "/sys/devices/platform") at ../src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c:264

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This bug suggests it can be worked around in mutter:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2463