Rsyslog encounters a segfault with "kernel: in:imjournal[####]: segfault at 0 <snip> error 4 in imjournal.so[<addr>]" visible in the logs

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Issue

  • The rsyslog daemon keeps encountering segfaults in the imjournal plugin. The following is the backtrace visible within the application core file:
    #0  loadJournalState () at imjournal.c:560
    #1  0x00007f5949f142dc in pollJournal () at imjournal.c:511
    #2  runInput (pThrd=<optimized out>) at imjournal.c:678
    #3  0x000055836c91bd94 in thrdStarter (arg=0x55836d206bf0) at ../threads.c:226
    #4  0x00007f594b525e25 in start_thread (arg=0x7f594742d700) at pthread_create.c:308
    #5  0x00007f594a61e34d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • rsyslog-8.24.0-12.el7

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