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Bug #15766

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Crash in 2.4, 2.5 involving at_exit

Added by christian.boos@free.fr (Christian Boos) almost 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:92283]

Description

Hello,

I've written a piece of code which reproducibly triggers a crash in some versions of Ruby (2.4 and 2.5, but not 2.2, 2.3 nor 2.6).

As this involves Minitest, I've started by filing a bug report on GitHub:

https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest/issues/789

However, as this triggers a crash, I've been advised to report it here as well. Also, I wasn't able to find a similar bug report.

I have not looked too deep, but it seems that the way Minitest deals with atexit handlers exposes a problem when there's a pending LocalJumpError.

You will find all the details in the Minitest bug 789, but let me summarize them again here:

require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'minitest/spec'

describe 'a simple crash reproducer' do
  before { return } # /!\
  it 'checks stuff' do
  end
end

Executing the above with the default minitest (or any newer version) won't work as a local return is not expected from within a before call (same thing for after).

But depending on the version, we may get a crash in addition to the error report:

  • ruby 2.2.5p319 (2016-04-26 revision 54774) [x64-mingw32] => LocalJumpError: unexpected return (no crash)
  • ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [x64-mingw32] => LocalJumpError: unexpected return (no crash)
  • ruby 2.4.2p198 (2017-09-14 revision 59899) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (+ CRASH)
  • ruby 2.4.5p335 (2018-10-18 revision 65137) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (+ CRASH)
  • ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (+ CRASH)
  • ruby 2.5.3p105 (2018-10-18 revision 65156) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (+ CRASH)
  • ruby 2.6.0p0 (2018-12-25 revision 66547) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (no crash)
  • ruby 2.6.1p33 (2019-01-30 revision 66950) [x64-mingw32] => unexpected return (no crash)

I'm mainly developing on Windows, and use the pre-built versions from rubyinstaller.org,
but in order to be sure that this is not a Windows-specific issue, I also tried Ruby 2.5.0p0 and 2.5.1p57 on Linux and I get the same crash.

That crash always takes the same form:

D:/Workspace/install/windows64/ruby-2.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/minitest-5.10.3/lib/minitest.rb:60: [BUG] Segmentation fault

-- Control frame information -----------------------------------------------
c:0003 p:---- s:0011 e:000010 CFUNC  :exit
c:0002 p:0027 s:0006 e:000005 BLOCK  D:/Workspace/install/windows64/ruby-2.4/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/minitest-5.10.3/lib/minitest.rb:60 [FINISH]
c:0001 p:0000 s:0003 E:000520 (none) [FINISH]

As the problem doesn't happen with 2.6, I did hope that this problem would also be fixed in recent 2.4 and 2.5, but the problem is still present for 2.4.5p335 and 2.5.3p105 at least (latest versions from rubyinstaller.org).


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