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Bug #7772

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Consider bumping stack size in ruby_qsort

Added by Conrad.Irwin (Conrad Irwin) about 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
ruby -v:
1.9.3p362
[ruby-core:51816]

Description

At the moment the maximum size of the stack is 32. The comment implies this should be enough for arrays with up to 2**32 elements, but it's possible to create larger arrays on some big systems.

I was not able to trigger a bug with: ([0, 1] * (2**32 + 10000)).sort! so it may actually never be a problem in practice, but it seems unsafe.


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0001-Bump-stack-size-in-ruby_qsort-for-64-bit-CPUs.patch (1010 Bytes) 0001-Bump-stack-size-in-ruby_qsort-for-64-bit-CPUs.patch Patch to bump size to 64 Conrad.Irwin (Conrad Irwin), 02/03/2013 04:07 PM

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) about 11 years ago

It's very well known that Quicksort may create stack overflows. But it's also very well known how to deal with them: Check which of the remaining divisions is longer, and user recursion for the sorter part, and tail recursion simulated with a loop for the longer one. For a (conceptual, written using Ruby as executable pseudocode) example, please see quick_sort_recurse at http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2012/DA/programs/6qsort.rb. I haven't checked the C code, but I would be extremely surprised if this and other optimizations would not have been used in Ruby's sort implementation.

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) about 11 years ago

Sorry, I should have had a look at the patch. It makes indeed sense to apply this patch.

Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) about 11 years ago

  • Category set to core
  • Assignee set to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
  • Target version set to 2.1.0

Nobu, could you check, and introduce it?

I think it should be included with 2.0.0-p???.

Actions #5

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r44195.
Conrad, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.


util.c: bump stack size in ruby_qsort()

  • util.c (ruby_qsort): fix potential stack overflow on a large
    machine. based on the patch by Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin AT
    gmail.com> at [ruby-core:51816]. [Bug #7772]

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) over 10 years ago

  • Backport set to 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: REQUIRED
Actions #7

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) about 10 years ago

  • Backport changed from 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: REQUIRED to 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: DONE

r44195 was backported to ruby_2_0_0 at r44565.

Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) about 10 years ago

  • Backport changed from 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: DONE to 1.9.3: DONE, 2.0.0: DONE

backported into ruby_1_9_3 at r44738.

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