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From:
Stas Bekman
Date:
February 24, 2004 20:31
Subject:
[perl #27085] segfault when using a shared hash ref with ithreads
Message ID:
rt-3.0.8-27085-79876.14.3992251373196@perl.org
# New Ticket Created by  Stas Bekman 
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This is a bug report for perl from stas@rabbit.stason.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.3.


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[Please enter your report here]

The following program segfaults:

#foo
package My::InterpreterCounter;

use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';

use threads;
use threads::shared;

my $obj = My::InterpreterCounter->new();

my $ctr = &share({});
$ctr->{cnt} = 1;

sub new {
     my $class = shift;
     my $self = 0;
     return bless \$self, $class;
}

sub CLONE {
     print "CLONE\n";
     $$obj = 1;
}

sub DESTROY {
     print "DESTROY\n";
     lock $ctr;
     $ctr->{cnt}--;
}

sub END {
     print "END\n";
     # DESTROY object now before $ctr went out of scope
     #undef $obj;
}

__END__

% perl foo
END
DESTROY
Segmentation fault

gdb) where
#0  0x403aabd6 in sharedsv_elem_mg_FETCH ()
    from
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
#1  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#2  0x4013bb78 in ?? ()
    from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
#3  0x00000050 in ?? ()

sorry, that perl has no debug built.

the following tweaks make the segfault go away:

1. comment out #$$obj = 1; in CLONE

- I suppose this $$obj was creating a closure (which is not a fault of my
program), in fact it can be any subroutine, not just CLONE. so $obj was
not destroyed before the END block is run. But after the END block is
called a shared $ctr has been destroyed, so the late DESTROY causes a
segfault.  Indeed doing this comment out, changes the order:

% perl foo
DESTROY
END

and the segfault goes away.

2. explicitly destroy $obj from the END block
the segfault goes away

3. change the definition of the shared var to:
my $ctr : shared = &share({});

4. use a different perl. The segfault I have is with 5.8.3 from mandrake,
I don't have it with 5.8.3 that I've built on my own. Here is what seems
to be the interesting differences:

-    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
-    optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 -mcpu=pentiumpro
',
-    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
+    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
+    optimize='-g',
+    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
      ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk)',
gccosandvers=''
      intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
      d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
      ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
      alignbytes=4, prototype=define
    Linker and Libraries:
-    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
+    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
      libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
-    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
+    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
      perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
-    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
-    gnulibc_version='2.3.3'
+    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
+    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
    Dynamic Linking:
      dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
-    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
+    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'




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---
Flags:
     category=core
     severity=low
---
Site configuration information for perl v5.8.3:

Configured by pixel at Tue Feb  3 13:48:38 CET 2004.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 3) configuration:
   Platform:
     osname=linux, osvers=2.6.0-1mdkenterprise, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
     uname='linux no.mandrakesoft.com 2.6.0-1mdkenterprise #1 smp thu dec 18 
16:11:28 est 2003 i686 unknown unknown gnulinux '
     config_args='-des -Dinc_version_list=5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi 5.8.2 
5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi 5.8.1 5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 5.8.0 5.6.1 
5.6.0 -Darchname=i386-linux -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 
-march=i586 -mcpu=pentiumpro  -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr 
-Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dman3ext=3pm -Dcf_by=MandrakeSoft -Dmyhostname=localhost 
-Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dd_dosuid -Ud_csh -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads'
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
     usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define 
usemultiplicity=define
     useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS 
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
     optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 -mcpu=pentiumpro ',
     cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS 
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
     ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk)', 
gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=4, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
     libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
     perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
     libc=/lib/libc-2.3.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
     gnulibc_version='2.3.3'
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic 
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:


---
@INC for perl v5.8.3:
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
     .

---
Environment for perl v5.8.3:
     HOME=/home/stas
     LANG=en_GB
     LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
     LC_ADDRESS=en_CA
     LC_COLLATE=en_GB
     LC_CTYPE=en_GB
     LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_CA
     LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA
     LC_MESSAGES=en_GB
     LC_MONETARY=en_CA
     LC_NAME=en_CA
     LC_NUMERIC=en_CA
     LC_PAPER=en_CA
     LC_TELEPHONE=en_CA
     LC_TIME=en_GB
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
     LOGDIR (unset)
 
PATH=/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/home/stas/bin:/home/stas/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0/bin/
     PERLDOC_PAGER=less -R
     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
     SHELL=/bin/tcsh

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