New subject: [kamailio/kamailio] Random segfault or general protection crash on siptrace module, probably related to dialog tracing mode (#2718)

28 Apr 2021

### Description
After upgrading from Kamailio 5.2.x, a high volume Kamailio 5.4.4 instance randomly
crashes with either a general protection or segfault error message in `siptrace.so` during
use of `sip_trace` function from one of its child processes (which cascades to the parent
crashing). This appears to occur once about every 36 hours on average, but has not yet
appeared to correspond with any particular event.

We are continuing to collect debug information and will be populating this ticket as more
information becomes available. However, this issue has been observed.

Sip trace function is applied in this example snippet:
```
# ------- siptrace --------
modparam("siptrace", "hep_mode_on", 1)
modparam("siptrace", "hep_version", 3)
modparam("siptrace", "trace_to_database", 0)
modparam("siptrace", "trace_flag", 22)
modparam("siptrace", "trace_on", 1)

request_route {
    #....
    if ( is_method("INVITE") && !has_totag() ) {
        # Only start sip_trace on initial INVITE
        sip_trace("HEP_URL","$ci-MY_IP","d");
    }
    setflag(22);
    #...
}
```

### Troubleshooting
We attempted packet collection with Homer v5 and Homer v7 and changed between HEP protocol
v2 and v3. 

#### Reproduction
We have not determined a means of reproducing this issue without simply letting the server
run until a crash occurs. There are four almost identical servers all experiencing the
same random crashing but not at the same time.

#### Debugging Data
Our next troubleshooting case will be to simply comment out the `sip_trace` function, but
this effectively disables the `siptrace` module completely rather than addressing an
underlying problem.

Core dumps are still in-progress for retrieval. Debug logs should also be more readily
available soon. There will be delays since these are high volume production servers.

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#### Log Messages

All of them have randomly crashed with the following example log entry. Regardless of
troubleshooting tactics to date:
```
kernel: traps: kamailio[7579] general protection ip:7fb1a64e2dbf sp:7ffc60f04180 error:0
in siptrace.so[7fb1a64b8000+4e000]
systemd: kamailio.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd: Unit kamailio.service entered failed state.
systemd: kamailio.service failed.
```

#### SIP Traffic
To date, there is no corresponding SIP Traffic with the crash.

### Possible Solutions
To date, only disabling the `siptrace` module seems to be the solution.

### Additional Information

  * **Kamailio Version** - output of `kamailio -v`

```
version: kamailio 5.4.4 (x86_64/linux) e16352
flags: USE_TCP, USE_TLS, USE_SCTP, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST,
DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, Q_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, TLSF_MALLOC, DBG_SR_MEMORY,
USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER, USE_NAPTR,
USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES
ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS 1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535,
DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 8MB
poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
id: e16352 
compiled on 15:56:46 Feb 15 2021 with gcc 4.8.5
```

* **Operating System**:

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```
Linux <hostname> 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 29 17:46:05 UTC 2019
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
```

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[kamailio/kamailio] Random segfault or general protection crash on siptrace.so module (#2718)