Re: SegFault on 9.6.14 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:20:00PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote:
>
>>Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 07:22:55PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote:
>>>
>>>>Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:48:05PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Greetings Hackers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We have a reproduceable case of $subject that issues a backtrace such as
>>>>>>seen below.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The query that I'd prefer to sanitize before sending is <30 lines of at
>>>>>>a glance, not terribly complex logic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It nonetheless dies hard after a few seconds of running and as expected,
>>>>>>results in an automatic all-backend restart.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Please advise on how to proceed.  Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>bt
>>>>>>#0  initscan (scan=scan@entry=0x55d7a7daa0b0, key=0x0, keep_startblock=keep_startblock@entry=1 '\001')
>>>>>>    at /build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c:233
>>>>>>#1  0x000055d7a72fa8d0 in heap_rescan (scan=0x55d7a7daa0b0, key=key@entry=0x0) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c:1529
>>>>>>#2  0x000055d7a7451fef in ExecReScanSeqScan (node=node@entry=0x55d7a7d85100) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/nodeSeqscan.c:280
>>>>>>#3  0x000055d7a742d36e in ExecReScan (node=0x55d7a7d85100) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/execAmi.c:158
>>>>>>#4  0x000055d7a7445d38 in ExecReScanGather (node=node@entry=0x55d7a7d84d30) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/nodeGather.c:475
>>>>>>#5  0x000055d7a742d255 in ExecReScan (node=0x55d7a7d84d30) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/execAmi.c:166
>>>>>>#6  0x000055d7a7448673 in ExecReScanHashJoin (node=node@entry=0x55d7a7d84110) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/nodeHashjoin.c:1019
>>>>>>#7  0x000055d7a742d29e in ExecReScan (node=node@entry=0x55d7a7d84110) at
/build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/executor/execAmi.c:226
>>>>>><about 30 lines omitted>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm, that means it's crashing here:
>>>>>
>>>>>    if (scan->rs_parallel != NULL)
>>>>>        scan->rs_nblocks = scan->rs_parallel->phs_nblocks;     <--- here
>>>>>    else
>>>>>        scan->rs_nblocks = RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(scan->rs_rd);
>>>>>
>>>>> But clearly, scan is valid (otherwise it'd crash on the if condition),
>>>>> and scan->rs_parallel must me non-NULL. Which probably means the pointer
>>>>> is (no longer) valid.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could it be that the rs_parallel DSM disappears on rescan, or something
>>>>> like that?
>>>>
>>>>No clue but something I just tried was to disable parallelism by setting
>>>>max_parallel_workers_per_gather to 0 and however the query has not
>>>>finished after a few minutes, there is no crash.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That might be a hint my rough analysis was somewhat correct. The
>>> question is whether the non-parallel plan does the same thing. Maybe it
>>> picks a plan that does not require rescans, or something like that.
>>>
>>>>Please advise.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It would be useful to see (a) exacution plan of the query, (b) full
>>> backtrace and (c) a bit of context for the place where it crashed.
>>>
>>> Something like (in gdb):
>>>
>>>    bt full
>>>    list
>>>    p *scan
>>
>>The p *scan did nothing unless I ran it first however my gdb $foo isn't
>>strong presently.
>
> Hmm, the rs_parallel pointer looks sane (it's not obvious garbage). Can
> you try this?
>
>   p *scan->rs_parallel


$ gdb /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/postgres core
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/postgres...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/04/6f55a5ce6ce05064edfc8feee61c6cb039d296.debug...done.
done.
[New LWP 31654]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `postgres: foo_eis_segfault: jsievers staging 10.220.22.26(57948) SELECT       '.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  initscan (scan=scan@entry=0x55d7a7daa0b0, key=0x0, keep_startblock=keep_startblock@entry=1 '\001')
    at /build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c:233
233    /build/postgresql-9.6-5O8OLM/postgresql-9.6-9.6.14/build/../src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c: No such file or
directory.
(gdb) p *scan->rs_parallel
Cannot access memory at address 0x7fa673a54108
(gdb) 

>
> Another question - are you sure this is not an OOM issue? That might
> sometimes look like SIGSEGV due to overcommit. What's the memory
> consumption / is there anything in dmesg?

Below is all I got after a prior dmesg -c...

dmesg -c
[5441294.442062] postgres[12033]: segfault at 7f3d011d2110 ip 000055666def9a31 sp 00007ffc37be9a70 error 4 in
postgres[55666de23000+653000]

Thanks!

>
> regards

-- 
Jerry Sievers
Postgres DBA/Development Consulting
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