Crash in the MallocTracker::record_free

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Aug 15 13:17:32 UTC 2022


On 15/08/2022 7:21 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:16 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com 
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 15/08/2022 6:28 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>      > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:27 AM Thomas Stüfe
>     <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >     On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:08 AM David Holmes
>      >     <david.holmes at oracle.com <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>
>     <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>>>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >         Hi Thomas,
>      >
>      >         On 15/08/2022 3:42 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>      >          > ..The only way I could see this happening is if tty
>     itself is
>      >         not valid.
>      >          > Is this very early during initialization?
>      >
>      >         Quite the opposite, it is during VM termination.
>      >
>      >
>      >     Yes, that makes sense too. tty is defaultStream::instance,
>     which we
>      >     delete in ostream_exit() in DestroyVM.
>      >
>      >     Since this has bugging me for a while (more during
>      >     pre-initialization, but its the same problem) I opened
>      > https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292351
>     <https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292351>
>      >     <https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292351
>     <https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292351>> to track this. Should
>      >     be trivial to fix.
> 
>     Perhaps trivial to not crash, but it means we are attempting various
>     "logging" actions after they can't be done - which is a pain. Afterall
>     we do want to see the real error here.
> 
> 
> That can happen though. As in your case, NMT telling us that the C-heap 
> is corrupted during VM cleanup. So it is a valid scenario.

Sure, I guess we can try and do the stream/tty deletion a bit later ...

>      >
>      > As for your crash, if you comment out "delete
>     defaultStream::instance;"
>      > in ostream.cpp, you should be able to see the real issue.
> 
>     Thanks - needed to do a little more than just that but I got the idea.
>     So that leads me to:
> 
>     #  Internal Error
>     (/scratch/users/daholme/jdk-dev3.git/open/src/hotspot/share/services/mallocHeader.inline.hpp:61),
> 
>     pid=2666, tid=2668
>     #  fatal error: NMT corruption: Block at 0x00007fba3f56ca90: header
>     canary broken
> 
> 
> No hex dump?

stdout: [NMT Block at 0x00007fba3f56ca90, corruption at: 
0x00007fba3f56ca90:
0x00007fba3f56ca10:   e0 ca 56 3f ba 7f 00 00 f8 cc 56 3f ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca20:   0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 78 05 40 f0 b9 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca30:   40 03 7e 27 ba 7f 00 00 08 cc 56 3f ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca40:   50 cb 56 3f ba 7f 00 00 f0 27 6f 3d ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca50:   01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 98 02 38 ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca60:   02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 e4 89 3e ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca70:   a0 ca 56 3f ba 7f 00 00 0a 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca80:   40 03 7e 27 ba 7f 00 00 f8 cc 56 3f ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56ca90:   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 98 d0 37 3f ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56caa0:   90 98 02 38 ba 7f 00 00 80 a3 02 38 ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56cab0:   e0 a3 02 38 ba 7f 00 00 f0 a3 02 38 ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56cac0:   c8 a4 02 38 ba 7f 00 00 d8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x00007fba3f56cad0:   60 a6 02 38 ba 7f 00 00 a0 e4 89 3e ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56cae0:   90 98 02 38 ba 7f 00 00 90 ac 02 38 ba 7f 00 00
0x00007fba3f56caf0:   78 05 40 f0 b9 7f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x00007fba3f56cb00:   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

David
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> 
>      >
>      >         Cheers,
>      >         David
>      >
>      >          > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:40 AM Thomas Stüfe
>      >         <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>>
>      >          > <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
>      >         <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>      >          >
>      >          >     Hi David,
>      >          >
>      >          >     NMT detected a heap corruption or the pointer to
>     be freed is
>      >          >     invalid. And then the reporter itself crashed while
>      >         printing the
>      >          >     report. That is strange, since the reporter should be
>      >         resilient
>      >          >     against crashes. It uses os::print_hex_dump, which
>     should use
>      >          >     SafeFetch to check if the to-be-dumped info is
>     accessible.
>      >          >
>      >          >     Any more information?
>      >          >
>      >          >     Cheers, Thomas
>      >          >
>      >          >     On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:18 AM David Holmes
>      >          >     <david.holmes at oracle.com
>     <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com
>     <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>>
>      >         <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com
>     <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>
>      >         <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com
>     <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>>>> wrote:
>      >          >
>      >          >         I'm getting the below crash:
>      >          >
>      >          >         #
>      >          >         # A fatal error has been detected by the Java
>     Runtime
>      >         Environment:
>      >          >         #
>      >          >         #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f3e3e24b417,
>     pid=4537,
>      >         tid=4538
>      >          >         #
>      >          >         # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
>     (20.0)
>      >         (fastdebug
>      >          >         build
>      >          >         20-internal-2022-06-10-0001400.daholme...)
>      >          >         # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
>     (fastdebug
>      >          >         20-internal-2022-06-10-0001400.daholme..., mixed
>      >         mode, sharing,
>      >          >         tiered,
>      >          >         compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc,
>      >         linux-amd64)
>      >          >         # Problematic frame:
>      >          >         # V  [libjvm.so+0x174b417]
>      >         outputStream::print_cr(char const*,
>      >          >         ...)+0x67
>      >          >
>      >          >         ---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------
>      >          >
>      >          >         Current thread (0x00007f3e38029890):  Thread
>     "Unknown
>      >         thread"
>      >          >         [stack:
>      >          >         0x00007f3e3f8a9000,0x00007f3e3f9aa000] [id=4538]
>      >          >
>      >          >         Stack: [0x00007f3e3f8a9000,0x00007f3e3f9aa000],
>      >          >         sp=0x00007f3e3f9a84b0,
>      >          >         free space=1021k
>      >          >         Native frames: (J=compiled Java code,
>     j=interpreted,
>      >         Vv=VM code,
>      >          >         C=native code)
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x174b417] 
>     outputStream::print_cr(char
>      >         const*,
>      >          >         ...)+0x67
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x157d708]
>      >          >         MallocHeader::print_block_on_error(outputStream*,
>      >         unsigned
>      >          >         char*) const+0x38
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x157f2ef]
>      >         MallocHeader::assert_block_integrity()
>      >          >         const+0x10f
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x157eb6b]
>      >         MallocTracker::record_free(void*)+0x3b
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x172d3ef]  os::free(void*)+0xbf
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x1a6d77a]  Thread::~Thread()+0x8a
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x1060292] 
>     JavaThread::~JavaThread()+0x12
>      >          >         V  [libjvm.so+0x1a8b174] 
>     Threads::destroy_vm()+0x264
>      >          >
>      >          >         Any tips on trying to figure out what is going
>     wrong?
>      >          >
>      >          >         Thanks,
>      >          >         David
>      >          >
>      >
> 


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