This usually happens when a string that belongs to the MCA system is freed elsewhere. Can you find out the name of the variable that is being destructed in frame 2.
-Nathan Hjelm
Application Readiness, HPC-5, LANL
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:53:29PM +0200, Mike Dubman wrote:
> Hi,
> We observe crash during shmem_finalize() (in trunk) with new MCA
> framework.
> After investigation, found that MCA tears-down process can access
> previously released memory. (reproduced with oshmem_hello_c.c test)
> 0 0x00007fffed3d51d0 in ?? ()
> #1 <signal handler called>
> #2 0x00007ffff710e21e in var_destructor (var=0x6fa7e0) at
> mca_base_var.c:1605
> #3 0x00007ffff710ae99 in opal_obj_run_destructors (object=0x6fa7e0) at
> ../../../opal/class/opal_object.h:448
> #4 0x00007ffff710ca18 in mca_base_var_finalize () at mca_base_var.c:954
> #5 0x00007ffff710a7e2 in mca_base_param_finalize () at
> mca_base_param.c:643
> #6 0x00007ffff70e08e2 in opal_finalize_util () at
> runtime/opal_finalize.c:77
> #7 0x00007ffff7aa5319 in ompi_mpi_finalize () at
> runtime/ompi_mpi_finalize.c:407
> #8 0x00007ffff7d900cc in oshmem_shmem_finalize () at
> runtime/oshmem_shmem_finalize.c:75
> #9 0x00007ffff7d91119 in shmem_finalize () at shmem_finalize.c:24
> #10 0x00007ffff7d89b8f in __do_global_dtors_aux () from
> /install/lib/libshmem.so.0
> #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> The crash can be resolved by following patch:
> diff --git a/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c b/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c
> index 9966627..48028d8 100644
> --- a/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c
> +++ b/opal/mca/base/mca_base_var.c
> @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ static int var_find_by_name (const char *full_name,
> int *index, bool invalidok)
>
> (void) var_get ((int)(uintptr_t) tmp, &var, false);
>
> - if (invalidok || VAR_IS_VALID(var[0])) {
> + if (VAR_IS_VALID(var[0])) {
> *index = (int)(uintptr_t) tmp;
> return OPAL_SUCCESS;
> }
> I`m not sure we understand yet why it fixes the problem and what is a
> race.
> Could some` with knowledge of MCA flows look at it and comment?
> The "invalidok" was introduced by Jeff`s commit.
> Thanks
> M
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