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[BUG] Crash due to malloc call in signal handler
Hello,
I finally found the cause of the frequent crashes I reported one
year ago ( https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg00059.html ).
This is due to malloc calls from signal handler, for instance:
#0 tcache_get (tc_idx=17) at malloc.c:2943
#1 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=296) at malloc.c:3050
#2 0x000055c2217b27b5 in malloc (size=8) at ./main.c:255
#3 0x000055c2218166f9 in zalloc (size=8) at mem.c:966
#4 0x000055c221806da2 in addbgstatus (pid=11959, status=0) at jobs.c:2192
#5 0x000055c2218478e7 in wait_for_processes () at signals.c:583
#6 0x000055c221847cdc in zhandler (sig=17) at signals.c:648
#7 <signal handler called>
#8 0x00007f8895b69209 in __GI___sigsuspend (set=0x7ffe759b7160) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:26
#9 0x000055c221847376 in signal_suspend (sig=17, wait_cmd=1) at signals.c:393
#10 0x000055c2218054e8 in waitforpid (pid=11953, wait_cmd=1) at jobs.c:1551
#11 0x000055c221807a10 in bin_fg (name=0x7f8896af4798 "wait", argv=0x7f8896af4830, ops=0x7ffe759b75c0, func=4) at jobs.c:2371
All the backtraces I get does not always show a signal, and I
get a lot a various errors occuring either in a malloc or a free;
however, I have been debugging this problem by enabling mcheck(),
and in this very case, all the crashes occur within freehook()
and when tracing back the associated malloc() I can find it
always occurs during double interlaced malloc() calls from the
main and signal contexts.
I can provide more info to reproduce the problem.
Antoine
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