Re: [dev] Torified surf is unstable

From: Gabriel Pérez-Cerezo <gabriel_AT_gpcf.eu>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:38:40 +0200

It really seems to be a problem with torsocks. I have already solved
this problem with a patch GhostAV just sent me on this list that adds
SOCKS support to surf. It works fine now.
At Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:32:48 +0100,
Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:00:40PM +0200, Gabriel Pérez-Cerezo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run surf through tor using 'torify surf'. If I don't add the '-i'
> > option, it segfaults when searching on Duckduckgo. Even if I add the
> > '-i' flag, it crashes after some time with messages like
> > "*** Error in `surf': free(): invalid pointer: 0x095ca248 ***"
> > or a segmentation fault and often reaches 100% CPU usage. Can you
> > replicate this situation?
> >
> > The command prints
> > [Aug 18 11:55:55] WARNING torsocks[14305]: [syscall] Unsupported
> > syscall number 240. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:165)
> > to STDOUT.
>
> Looking at the torsocks code, it seems they do handle futexes[0]. Can
> you try a newer version of torsocks or directly from git?
>
> [0] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git/tree/src/lib/syscall.c#n428
>


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