[ARROW-4242] [C++] Seg fault when running unit tests on fresh Arch Linux install

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: C++
• Environment: Arch Linux x86-64
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/3384
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Michael Vilim
• Created: 12/Jan/19 02:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:32
• Resolved: 04/Mar/19 10:09

Description

First, let me say I appreciate all the work that has been put into this project. I have been following it with great interest and recently decided to include it in one of my projects.

However, I have run into an issue with a segmentation fault when trying to run the C++ unit tests (which previously worked for me). This issue appears to be something specific to my system (I am running Arch Linux). I can reproduce the issue with the minimal Docker install of Arch:

FROM archimg/base

RUN \
 pacman -Sy --noconfirm git cmake gcc make boost autoconf python; \
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/apache/arrow.git; \
 cd arrow/cpp; \
 mkdir build; \
 cd build; \
 cmake -DARROW_BUILD_TESTS=ON ..; \
 make

If you create a Dockerfile with those contents and then run

docker build -t mvilim/arch-arrow-test-segfault .
docker run mvilim/arch-arrow-test-segfault /bin/bash -c "cd /arrow/cpp/build; make unittest; gcc --version; cmake --version"

you should be able to reproduce the issue:

The following tests FAILED:
 2 - arrow-array-test (Failed)
 3 - arrow-buffer-test (Failed)
 8 - arrow-stl-test (Failed)
 9 - arrow-type-test (Failed)
 10 - arrow-table-test (Failed)
 15 - arrow-compute-boolean-test (Failed)
 16 - arrow-compute-cast-test (Failed)
 17 - arrow-compute-hash-test (Failed)
 18 - arrow-feather-test (Failed)
 19 - arrow-ipc-read-write-test (Failed)
 20 - arrow-ipc-json-simple-test (Failed)
 21 - arrow-ipc-json-test (Failed)
 24 - arrow-csv-column-builder-test (Failed)
 28 - arrow-io-compressed-test (Failed)
 31 - arrow-io-memory-test (Failed)

If you run the container interactively and inspect the logs, you will see that all the failures are caused by seg faults.

I used git bisect to narrow the problem down to commit 7cdab9b06 when the tests were switched to use shared linking by default. Static linking works fine for me (using -DARROW_TEST_LINKAGE=static).

I also compiled with Clang and -DARROW_USE_ASAN=ON and inspected several of the stack traces. It looks like all the seg faults happen during creation of a shared pointer, but in varied places.

On creation of Int32Type:

./debug/arrow-array-test
 AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
 =================================================================
 ==29563==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x558afa951b70 bp 0x7ffcf1c34880 sp 0x7ffcf1c34810 T0)
 ==29563==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
 ==29563==Hint: address points to the zero page.
 #0 0x558afa951b6f in std::type_info::operator==(std::type_info const&) const /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/typeinfo:123:12
 #1 0x558afa9b2c16 in std::Sp_counted_ptr_inplace<arrow::Int32Type, std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type>, (_gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)2>::_M_get_deleter(std::type_info const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:573:16
 #2 0x7fe7b711e6f1 in std::_shared_count<(_gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)2>::_M_get_deleter(std::type_info const&) const /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:751:31
 #3 0x7fe7b73ec240 in std::_shared_ptr<arrow::Int32Type, (gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)2>::_shared_ptr<std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> >(std::_Sp_make_shared_tag, std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:1328:28
 #4 0x7fe7b73ec1c7 in std::shared_ptr<arrow::Int32Type>::shared_ptr<std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> >(std::_Sp_make_shared_tag, std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:360:4
 #5 0x7fe7b73ec14b in std::shared_ptr<arrow::Int32Type> std::allocate_shared<arrow::Int32Type, std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> >(std::allocator<arrow::Int32Type> const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:706:14
 #6 0x7fe7b73cd323 in std::shared_ptr<arrow::Int32Type> std::make_shared<arrow::Int32Type>() /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:722:14
 #7 0x7fe7b73c3f2f in arrow::int32() /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/type.cc:484:1
 #8 0x558afa76cc8d in __cxx_global_var_init.1 /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/ipc/test-common.h:65:30
 #9 0x558afa779ef9 in GLOBAL_sub_I_array_test.cc /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/array-test.cc

On creation of a Field:

#6 0x7f74f1947598 in std::shared_ptr<arrow::Field> std::make_shared<arrow::Field, std::_cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::shared_ptr<arrow::DataType> const&, bool&, std::shared_ptr<arrow::KeyValueMetadata const> const&>(std::_cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::shared_ptr<arrow::DataType> const&, bool&, std::shared_ptr<arrow::KeyValueMetadata const> const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:722:14
 #7 0x7f74f193e1e3 in arrow::field(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::shared_ptr<arrow::DataType> const&, bool, std::shared_ptr<arrow::KeyValueMetadata const> const&) /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/type.cc:556:10
 #8 0x56079cb90206 in arrow::TestField_TestMetadataConstruction_Test::TestBody() /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/type-test.cc:68:13

On creation of an Array:

#6 0x7f8da9f9300f in std::shared_ptr<arrow::NumericArray<arrow::Int32Type> > std::make_shared<arrow::NumericArray<arrow::Int32Type>, std::shared_ptr<arrow::ArrayData> const&>(std::shared_ptr<arrow::ArrayData> const&) /usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.1/../../../../include/c++/8.2.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:722:14
 #7 0x7f8da9f86fc2 in arrow::Status arrow::internal::ArrayDataWrapper::Visit<arrow::Int32Type>(arrow::Int32Type const&) /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/array.cc:892:13
 #8 0x7f8da9f5a076 in arrow::Status arrow::VisitTypeInline<arrow::internal::ArrayDataWrapper>(arrow::DataType const&, arrow::internal::ArrayDataWrapper*) /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/visitor_inline.h:46:5
 #9 0x7f8da9f2f3d3 in arrow::MakeArray(std::shared_ptr<arrow::ArrayData> const&) /home/mvilim/repos/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/array.cc:905:14

GCC version is 8.2.1 20181127
cmake version is 3.13.2

I believe the issue is related to linking in some way (because this does not happen with static linking). It is probably my lack of experience in C++ showing, but I am unsure how to proceed in finding the cause of this issue.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.