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Bug #18795

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Verbose GC debug output with -DRGENGC_DEBUG=5 causes a crash

Added by kjtsanaktsidis (KJ Tsanaktsidis) almost 2 years ago. Updated 3 months ago.

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ruby -v:
ruby 3.2.0dev (2022-05-18T05:33:00Z master 97c12c5f69) [arm64-darwin21]
[ruby-core:108646]

Description

I was trying to debug an (unrelated) issue in the GC, and wanted to turn on the trace-level GC output by compiling it with -DRGENGC_DEBUG=5. Unfortunately, this actually causes a crash in newobj_init() because the code there tries to log the obj_info() of the newly created object. However, the object is not actually sufficiently set up for some of the things that obj_info() tries to do:

  • The instance variable table for a class is not yet initialized, and when using variable-length RVALUES, said ivar table is embedded in as-yet unitialized memory after the struct RValue. Attempting to read this, as obj_info() does, causes a crash.
  • T_DATA variables need to dereference their ->type field to print out the underlying C type name, which is not set up until newobj_fill() is called.

I have attached a patch which fixes this by doing two things:

  • Firstly, we define a new function obj_info_basic(), which is just obj_info() except skipping bits that don't work on newly-created objects. We make the new-object-creation log use this "basic" version instead of the ordinary obj_info().
  • Then, move the log message out of newobj_init() and into newobj_fill(); all possible codepaths which call newobj_init() do subsequently call newobj_fill(), so this won't change any output, and it allows the type of T_DATA objects to still be printed even in obj_info_basic(), which is helpful.

Thanks!


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