[ruby-core:126254] [Ruby Bug#22225] YJIT regenerates a branch while a duplicate target still points to the invalidated block

5 Aug 2026

Issue #22225 has been updated by cosgroveb (Brian Cosgrove).


luke-gru (Luke Gruber) wrote in #note-3:
...
I think this is one of those instances I *should* have used an LLM, sorry! It has me thinking that this is not a bug after all. The JIT team will still take a look at it, but this may not be the repro to your bug that you were hoping for.
I should be clear that this script doesn't reproduce the self-jump itself. Calling it a "repro" is maybe a bit strong. 

Obviously this intermediate state happens inside the VM lock. I simply want to make sure that it's intentional that the branch is rewritten after updating only one of its' targets.

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Bug #22225: YJIT regenerates a branch while a duplicate target still points to the invalidated block
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22225#change-118339

* Author: cosgroveb (Brian Cosgrove)
* Status: Feedback
* Assignee: jit
* ruby -v: ruby 4.1.0dev (2026-08-03T03:11:21Z master f622e12503) +YJIT dev +PRISM [aarch64-linux]
* Backport: 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN, 4.0: UNKNOWN
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YJIT adds one incoming-list entry for each branch target that points to a block. When both targets point to the same block, that block's incoming list contains the same `BranchRef` twice.

`invalidate_block_version` processes those entries separately. For the first entry, it redirects one target and immediately calls `regenerate_branch`. The other target still references
the invalidated block.

The following assertion fails immediately before that call:

```patch

diff --git a/yjit/src/core.rs b/yjit/src/core.rs
index d08cd1fb26..4555081ae2 100644
--- a/yjit/src/core.rs
+++ b/yjit/src/core.rs
@@ -4282,6 +4282,18 @@ pub fn invalidate_block_version(blockref: &BlockRef) {
             }
         }

+        assert!(
+            branch.targets.iter().all(|target| unsafe {
+                // SAFETY: no mutation.
+                target
+                    .ref_unchecked()
+                    .as_ref()
+                    .and_then(|target| target.get_block())
+                    != Some(*blockref)
+            }),
+            "regeneration started while a branch target still referenced the invalidated block"
+        );
+
         // Rewrite the branch with the new jump target address
         let old_branch_size = branch.code_size();
         regenerate_branch(cb, branch);
```

This Ruby script triggers the assertion:

```ruby
# duplicate_target_invalidation.rb
module DuplicateTargetInvalidation
  TARGET = 1

  def self.call(condition)
    if condition
      1
    else
      2
    end

    TARGET
  end
end

3.times do |index|
  DuplicateTargetInvalidation.call(index.even?)
end

DuplicateTargetInvalidation.send(:remove_const, :TARGET)

puts "completed"
```

Save the patch as `assert-no-invalidated-target-before-regeneration.patch` and the script as `duplicate_target_invalidation.rb`. From CRuby `ruby 4.1.0dev`:

```sh
git apply assert-no-invalidated-target-before-regeneration.patch
./autogen.sh
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-yjit=dev
make -j"$(nproc)"
./ruby --yjit-call-threshold=1 ../duplicate_target_invalidation.rb
```

The process aborts before printing `completed`:

```text
[BUG] YJIT: panicked at yjit/src/core.rs:4285:9:
regeneration started while a branch target still referenced the invalidated block
```


regenerate_branch runs with one target redirected to a stub and the other still pointing at the invalidated block. That can leave generated code jumping back into code YJIT just invalidated.





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