[petsc-dev] [petsc-checkbuilds] PETSc blame digest (next) 2016-04-08

Tobin Isaac tisaac at uchicago.edu
Wed Apr 13 17:48:24 CDT 2016


Thanks, Satish

On April 13, 2016 5:29:11 PM CDT, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>I pushed the following to get suppress this warning to
>tisaac/dmp4est-feature-injection [and merged to next]
>
>https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/403a37bcd7a8acbd8d9c14f7e483574a3c3be850
>
>[preferable to the alternative of trying to filter out the warning
>during post-processing]
>
>Satish
>
>On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Satish Balay wrote:
>
>> ok - I mixed up DMPlexReferenceTreeRestoreChildrenMatrices_Injection
>and DMPlexReferenceTreeGetChildrenMatrices_Injection
>> 
>> Satish
>> 
>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Tobin Isaac wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:42:26PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>> > > Ok - I see the bug in this code.
>> > > 
>> > > static PetscErrorCode
>DMPlexReferenceTreeRestoreChildrenMatrices_Injection(DM refTree, Mat
>inj, PetscScalar ****childrenMats)
>> > > 
>> > > Since this funciton is defined as 'static' the compiler is doing
>> > > 'inter procedure analysis' across the calling function with -O
>[this
>> > > warning comes up only with -O build]
>> > > 
>> > > 1. plextree.c:3506 has the following variable declared
>[uninitialized]
>> > >   PetscScalar    ***childrenMats;
>> > > 
>> > > 2. the next usage of this variable is: plextree.c:3846
>> > >   ierr =
>DMPlexReferenceTreeGetChildrenMatrices_Injection(refTree,injRef,&childrenMats);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> > > 
>> > > 3. Within this function - the first usage of this variable is
>plextree.c:L3453
>> > >   refPointFieldMats = *childrenMats;
>> > > 
>> > > i.e access/use of uninitialized variable.
>> > > 
>> > > The following supresses the warning - but there is clearly some
>lurking bug..
>> > 
>> > A bug in the code, or the analyzer?  Like I said, there is a
>> > conditional-free path that leads to plextree.c:L3436 (was 3437)---
>> > 
>> >   *childrenMats = refPointFieldMats;
>> > 
>> > ---in the Get function before the line in the Restore function
>that's
>> > triggering the warning.  Maybe the (shorter) Restore function is
>being
>> > inlined while the Get function isn't, I don't know, but I'm fairly
>> > confident this is a false positive. 
>> > 
>> > Furthermore, this code is covered by tests in next, but looking at
>the
>> > dashboard I don't see any warnings from the valgrind build.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > > 
>> > > diff --git a/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c
>b/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c
>> > > index 2ee02d0..e51f704 100644
>> > > --- a/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c
>> > > +++ b/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c
>> > > @@ -3503,7 +3503,7 @@ PetscErrorCode DMPlexComputeInjectorTree(DM
>coarse, DM fine, PetscSF coarseToFin
>> > >    PetscLayout    rowMap, colMap;
>> > >    PetscInt       rowStart, rowEnd, colStart, colEnd, *nnzD,
>*nnzO;
>> > >    PetscObject    injRefObj;
>> > > -  PetscScalar    ***childrenMats;
>> > > +  PetscScalar    ***childrenMats=0;
>> > >    PetscErrorCode ierr;
>> > >  
>> > >    PetscFunctionBegin;
>> > > 
>> > > And this was introduced by
>http://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/f30e825d
>> > > 
>> > > Satish
>> > > 
>> > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Barry Smith wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > >   Toby,
>> > > > 
>> > > >    We'll be filtering out these false positives. It is just
>taking us a couple of days to determine that needs to be filtered.
>> > > > 
>> > > >   Barry
>> > > > 
>> > > > > On Apr 8, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Tobin Isaac <tisaac at uchicago.edu>
>wrote:
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > I spent a couple minutes verifying that there is no code path
>where
>> > > > > that variable is not initialized on line 3437.
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > -Wmaybe-uninitialized seems to generate a lot of false
>positives.
>> > > > > Coupled with the blame digest's poor ability to assign blame,
>this
>> > > > > proactive approach seems to waste more time than a reactive
>> > > > > SEGV->valgrind->fix approach.
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Cheers,
>> > > > >  Toby
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>> > > > >> This should have been sent to Toby.
>> > > > >> 
>> > > > >> I don't really understand the issue here. Its triggered by
>--with-debugging=0. I'm
>> > > > >> not sure why these compilers are pointing to petscsys.h. I
>get slightly different message
>> > > > >> on my laptop.
>> > > > >> 
>> > > > >> mpicc -c -fPIC  -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing
>-Wno-unknown-pragmas -fvisibility=hidden -g -O  
>-I/home/balay/petsc/include
>-I/home/balay/petsc/arch-linux2-c-opt/include
>-I/home/balay/soft/mpich-3.1.4/include    -MMD -MP
>/home/balay/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c -o
>arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.o
>> > > > >> /home/balay/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c: In function
>‘DMPlexComputeInjectorTree’:
>> > > > >> /home/balay/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c:3484:11:
>warning: ‘childrenMats’ may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>   ierr = PetscFree(refPointFieldMats);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> > > > >>           ^
>> > > > >> /home/balay/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plextree.c:3507:18:
>note: ‘childrenMats’ was declared here
>> > > > >>   PetscScalar    ***childrenMats;
>> > > > >>                  ^
>> > > > >> 
>> > > > >> Satish
>> > > > >> 
>> > > > >> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, PETSc checkBuilds wrote:
>> > > > >> 
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> Dear PETSc developer,
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> This email contains listings of contributions attributed to
>you by
>> > > > >>> `git blame` that caused compiler errors or warnings in
>PETSc automated
>> > > > >>> testing.  Follow the links to see the full log files.
>Please attempt to fix
>> > > > >>> the issues promptly or let us know at petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov
>if you are unable
>> > > > >>> to resolve the issues.
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> Thanks,
>> > > > >>>  The PETSc development team
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> ----
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>> warnings attributed to commit
>https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/49d7da5
>> > > > >>> PetscMalloc: allow ptr=malloc(0) and free(ptr)
>> > > > >>> 
>> > > > >>>  include/petscsys.h:1157
>> > > > >>>   
>[http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2016/04/08/build_next_arch-freebsd-cxx-pkgs-opt_wii.log]
>> > > > >>>     
>/usr/home/balay/petsc.clone-2/include/petscsys.h:1157:88: warning:
>'childrenMats' may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>>   
>[http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2016/04/08/build_next_arch-linux-opt-cxx-quad_grind.log]
>> > > > >>>     
>/sandbox/petsc/petsc.clone-3/include/petscsys.h:1157:88: warning:
>'childrenMats' may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>>   
>[http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2016/04/08/build_next_arch-freebsd-pkgs-opt_wii.log]
>> > > > >>>     
>/usr/home/balay/petsc.clone/include/petscsys.h:1157:39: warning:
>'childrenMats' may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>>   
>[http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2016/04/08/build_next_arch-linux-pkgs-latest_cg.log]
>> > > > >>>     
>/sandbox/petsc/petsc.clone-4/include/petscsys.h:1157:25: warning:
>'childrenMats' may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>>   
>[http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2016/04/08/build_next_arch-linux-pkgs-opt_crank.log]
>> > > > >>>      /sandbox/petsc/petsc.clone/include/petscsys.h:1157:25:
>warning: 'childrenMats' may be used uninitialized in this function
>[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> > > > >>> 
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