[DOCS] Troubleshooting SIGSEGV on SELinux when elasticsearch home directory is missing #74545
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As per the discussion in https://github.com/elastic/sdh-elasticsearch/issues/4535 and #73309
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Largely supersedes elastic#77285 Relates elastic#80617
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Largely supersedes elastic#77285
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Largely supersedes elastic#77285
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Relates elastic#77285
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Relates elastic#77285
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Relates elastic#77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since #80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes #18272 Closes #73309 Closes #74545 Closes #77014 Closes #77053 Relates #77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Relates elastic#77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since elastic#80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes elastic#18272 Closes elastic#73309 Closes elastic#74545 Closes elastic#77014 Closes elastic#77053 Relates elastic#77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since #80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes #18272 Closes #73309 Closes #74545 Closes #77014 Closes #77053 Relates #77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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* Set LIBFFI_TMPDIR at startup (#80651) Today if `libffi` cannot allocate pages of memory which are both writeable and executable then it will attempt to write code to a temporary file. Elasticsearch configures itself a suitable temporary directory for use by JNA but by default `libffi` won't find this directory and will try various other places. In certain configurations, none of the other places that `libffi` tries are suitable. With older versions of JNA this would result in a `SIGSEGV`; since #80617 the JVM will exit with an exception. With this commit we use the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable to configure `libffi` to use the same directory as JNA for its temporary files if they are needed. Closes #18272 Closes #73309 Closes #74545 Closes #77014 Closes #77053 Relates #77285 Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com> * Fix incorrect SSL usage Co-authored-by: Rory Hunter <roryhunter2@gmail.com>
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This PR updates docs to guide users who run into this bug: #73309
(The issue is that in some hardened environments, Java tries to write a small file called
.oracle_jre_usageto the user's home directory, but if the user has no home directory, there's a very cryptic error.)