Issue #19156 has been updated by mk (Matthias Käppler).
I'm not sure this makes sense but: we know the address being referenced is somewhere
(half-way) into a memory region that is a memory-mapped file using that Prometheus
library's binary encoding.
This is the file:
```
xxd gauge_max_puma_0-0.db
00000000: 6800 0000 0000 0000 5100 0000 5b22 6465 h.......Q...["de
00000010: 706c 6f79 6d65 6e74 7322 2c22 6465 706c ployments","depl
00000020: 6f79 6d65 6e74 7322 2c5b 2272 6576 6973 oyments",["revis
00000030: 696f 6e22 2c22 7665 7273 696f 6e22 5d2c ion","version"],
00000040: 5b22 6335 3365 6336 3336 6435 3022 2c22 ["c53ec636d50","
00000050: 3135 2e37 2e30 2d70 7265 225d 5d20 2020 15.7.0-pre"]]
00000060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00000070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
...
00000ff0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
```
We can see there is only a single sample in here, the application version (we track this
into a metric).
The library zeroes these files out with a minimum size of 4KB. So somehow there is an
object slot in MRI's `ObjectSpace` that shares an address with this empty mmap'ed
space? That doesn't make any sense. Of course it would explain why it doesn't pass
the test "are you a valid string", but how did we even get here to begin with?
`prometheus-client-mmap` also doesn't use `str_new_static`, but it does allocate Ruby
strings in its C extension e.g. here:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/prometheus-client-mmap/-/blob/b4eae83927efd51…
I'm not sure at this point whether this is just another red herring.
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Bug #19156: ObjectSpace.dump_all segfault during string inspection
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19156#change-100325
* Author: mk (Matthias Käppler)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.0.4p208 (2022-04-12 revision 3fa771dded) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
----------------------------------------
I am working on a feature that would allow our application to capture heap dumps during
shutdown for later inspection.
These heap dumps are captured via `ObjectSpace.dump_all(output: io)`. While walking the
object space, MRI occasionally segfaults while inspecting string objects in
`search_nonascii` of `string.c`:
```
/usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/objspace.rb:87: [BUG] Segmentation fault at 0x00007efee4201000
ruby 3.0.4p208 (2022-04-12 revision 3fa771dded) [x86_64-linux]
...
-- Control frame information -----------------------------------------------
c:0053 p:---- s:0312 e:000311 CFUNC :_dump_all
c:0052 p:0130 s:0305 e:000304 METHOD /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/objspace.rb:87
c:0051 p:0023 s:0295 e:000294 METHOD
/home/git/gitlab/lib/gitlab/memory/reports/heap_dump.rb:26
...
-- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_print_backtrace+0x11) [0x7efee4ad0c5e] vm_dump.c:758
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_vm_bugreport) vm_dump.c:998
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_bug_for_fatal_signal+0xf8) [0x7efee48d0b08] error.c:787
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(sigsegv+0x55) [0x7efee4a23db5] signal.c:963
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(__restore_rt+0x0) [0x7efee4f12140]
../sysdeps/pthread/funlockfile.c:28
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(search_nonascii+0x30) [0x7efee4a3ca60] string.c:552
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(coderange_scan) string.c:585
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(enc_coderange_scan+0x1b) [0x7efee4a3e28a] string.c:709
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_enc_str_coderange) string.c:727
/usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/objspace.so(is_broken_string+0x8) [0x7efeced9c304]
../../internal/string.h:116
/usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/objspace.so(dump_object) objspace_dump.c:388
/usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/objspace.so(heap_i+0x39) [0x7efeced9caa9]
objspace_dump.c:521
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(objspace_each_objects_without_setup+0xaf) [0x7efee48e878f]
gc.c:3232
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(objspace_each_objects_protected+0x14) [0x7efee48e87c4]
gc.c:3242
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_ensure+0x12a) [0x7efee48d96aa] eval.c:1162
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(objspace_each_objects+0x28) [0x7efee48fb458] gc.c:3310
/usr/local/lib/libruby.so.3.0(rb_objspace_each_objects) gc.c:3298
/usr/local/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/objspace.so(objspace_dump_all+0x88)
[0x7efeced9b068] objspace_dump.c:616
...
```
Unfortunately I couldn't get my hands on that memory region to see which strings are
causing this since this doesn't always happen.
I suspect this is also a problem with MRI master since the code looks unchanged from
3.0.4.
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