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SEGV during SMOB GC

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From: Mike Gran <spk121 <at> yahoo.com>
To: 13611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13611: SEGV during SMOB GC
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:51:40 -0800 (PST)

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Hello-

I have a reproducible SEGV during GC of SMOBs on Guile 2.0.7.
It was also present in 2.0.6.


To reproduce compile main.c as 

$ gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o smobbug.so -Wall -Wextra `pkg-config guile-2.0 --cflags --libs` -fPIC main.c


Then with
$ LD_PRELOAD=./smobbug.so LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. GUILE_LOAD_PATH=. guile

;; At the repl, load the lib

 (use-modules (smobbug))
;; Make a SMOB to be GC'd

 (handlesmob-init)
;; Trigger a GC from the GC thread
 (string-length (make-string 10000000))

This gives

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  [Switching to Thread 0xb7d98b40 (LWP 20488)]
  0xb7f251ab in smob_mark (addr=0x8608ff0, mark_stack_ptr=0xb7d90308, 
      mark_stack_limit=0xb7d982f0, env=0) at smob.c:325
  325           SCM_I_CURRENT_THREAD->current_mark_stack_ptr = mark_stack_ptr;

Here's what's happening internally.  When Guile starts up, it creates 3
threads
* Initial thread
* GC thread from scm_storage_prehistory GC_INIT()
* signal delivery thread

That second thread is the one from which automatic garbage collection
occurs.  The way that thread gets created, it has an
scm_i_current_thread == NULL, apparently.


So dereferencing scm_i_current_thread causes null dereference.
And smob_mark() will dereference scm_i_current_thread when collecting a
smob with a mark function.

-Mike

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