Bug #20267: Hashes that use ar_table aren't moved properly across ractors

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[luke-gru (Luke Gruber)]

This crashes in debug build and gives weird results in non debug build, because the ar_table values aren't copied over to the new "embedded" hash during a move across ractors.

r = Ractor.new {
  hash = receive
  puts hash
}
obj = {
  "1" => 1,
  "2" => 2,
  "3" => 3,
}
puts obj
r.send(obj, move: true)
r.take

Crash log:

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(sigsegv+0x4d) [0x5641e67d105d] ../ruby/signal.c:926

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(0x7fb4baa42520) [0x7fb4baa42520]

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(RB_BUILTIN_TYPE+0x0) [0x5641e6778db0] ../ruby/ractor.c:3128

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(rbimpl_RB_TYPE_P_fastpath) ../ruby/include/ruby/internal/value_type.h:351

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(RB_TYPE_P) ../ruby/include/ruby/internal/value_type.h:378

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(RB_FL_ABLE) ../ruby/include/ruby/internal/fl_type.h:449

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(RB_FL_TEST_RAW) ../ruby/include/ruby/internal/fl_type.h:471

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(rb_ractor_shareable_p) ../ruby/include/ruby/ractor.h:256

/home/lukeg/workspace/ruby-build/miniruby(reset_belonging_enter) ../ruby/ractor.c:3121

[luke-gru (Luke Gruber)]

I created a patch here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9983

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to ko1 (Koichi Sasada)

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset git|0350290262ea0fbc4e1807901797ee8a6970c2b9.

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Ractor: Fix moving embedded objects

[Bug #20271]
[Bug #20267]
[Bug #20255]

rb_obj_alloc(RBASIC_CLASS(obj)) will always allocate from the basic
40B pool, so if obj is larger than 40B, we'll create a corrupted
object when we later copy the shape_id.

Instead we can use the same logic than ractor copy, which is
to use rb_obj_clone, and later ask the GC to free the original
object.

We then must turn it into a T_OBJECT, because otherwise
just changing its class to RactorMoved leaves a lot of
ways to keep using the object, e.g.:

a = [1, 2, 3]
Ractor.new{}.send(a, move: true)
[].concat(a) # Should raise, but wasn't.

If it turns out that rb_obj_clone isn't performant enough
for some uses, we can always have carefully crafted specialized
paths for the types that would benefit from it.

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

• Related to Bug #20165: Ractors moving a Struct breaks beyond the first 3 fields added