[petsc-users] KSP_Solve crashes in debug mode

Wed Feb 22 17:32:06 CST 2023

Hi Matt,

Adding `-checkstack` does not prevent the crash, both on my laptop and on the cluster.

What does prevent the crash (on my laptop at least) is changing `PETSCSTACKSIZE` from 64 to 256 here : https://github.com/petsc/petsc/blob/main/include/petscerror.h#L1153

Thank You,
Sajid Ali (he/him) | Research Associate
Data Science, Simulation, and Learning Division
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
s-sajid-ali.github.io<http://s-sajid-ali.github.io>

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From: Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 5:23 PM
To: Sajid Ali Syed <sasyed at fnal.gov>
Cc: Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev>; petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] KSP_Solve crashes in debug mode

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 6:18 PM Sajid Ali Syed via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
One thing to note in relation to the trace attached in the previous email is that there are no warnings until the 36th call to KSP_Solve. The first error (as indicated by ASAN) occurs somewhere before the 40th call to KSP_Solve (part of what the application marks as turn 10 of the propagator). The crash finally occurs on the 43rd call to KSP_solve.

Looking at the trace, it appears that stack handling is messed up and eventually it causes the crash. This can happen when
PetscFunctionBegin is not matched up with PetscFunctionReturn. Can you try running this with

  -checkstack

  Thanks,

     Matt

Thank You,
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Data Science, Simulation, and Learning Division
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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Subject: Re: [petsc-users] KSP_Solve crashes in debug mode

Hi Barry,

Thanks a lot for fixing this issue. I ran the same problem on a linux machine and have the following trace for the same crash (with ASAN turned on for both PETSc (on the latest commit of the branch) and the application) : https://gist.github.com/s-sajid-ali/85bdf689eb8452ef8702c214c4df6940<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gist.github.com_s-2Dsajid-2Dali_85bdf689eb8452ef8702c214c4df6940&d=DwMFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=w-DPglgoOUOz8eiEyHKz0g&m=q5fD8r624Cr0Ow4AKTmgeLtq_M--q_KdGYMkBNiKOMDa8o82C8P97vdCRcxrqTCF&s=Z8JyNKYXjUZE4DXYKvjxTOG4HZUA95U6z750WC6gUCo&e=>

The trace seems to indicate a couple of buffer overflows, one of which causes the crash. I'm not sure as to what causes them.

Thank You,
Sajid Ali (he/him) | Research Associate
Data Science, Simulation, and Learning Division
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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Subject: Re: [petsc-users] KSP_Solve crashes in debug mode

https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/6075<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_petsc_petsc_-2D_merge-5Frequests_6075&d=DwMFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=w-DPglgoOUOz8eiEyHKz0g&m=P7R0CW9R-fGNfm2q3yTL-ehqhM5N9-r8hHBLNgDetm9-7jxVqNsujIZ2hdnhVrVX&s=QwRI_DzGnCHagpaQSC4MPPEUnC4aAkbMwdG1eg_QUII&e=> should fix the possible recursive error condition Matt pointed out

On Feb 9, 2023, at 6:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com<mailto:knepley at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 6:05 PM Sajid Ali Syed via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:

I added “-malloc_debug” in a .petscrc file and ran it again. The backtrace from lldb is in the attached file. The crash now seems to be at:

Process 32660 stopped* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=2, address=0x16f603fb8)
    frame #0: 0x0000000112ecc8f8 libpetsc.3.018.dylib`PetscFPrintf(comm=0, fd=0x0000000000000000, format=0x0000000000000000) at mprint.c:601
   598               `PetscViewerASCIISynchronizedPrintf()`, `PetscSynchronizedFlush()`
   599      @*/
   600      PetscErrorCode PetscFPrintf(MPI_Comm comm, FILE *fd, const char format[], ...)
-> 601      {
   602       PetscMPIInt rank;
   603      
   604       PetscFunctionBegin;
(lldb) frame info
frame #0: 0x0000000112ecc8f8 libpetsc.3.018.dylib`PetscFPrintf(comm=0, fd=0x0000000000000000, format=0x0000000000000000) at mprint.c:601
(lldb)

The trace seems to indicate some sort of infinite loop causing an overflow.

Yes, I have also seen this. What happens is that we have a memory error. The error is reported inside PetscMallocValidate()
using PetscErrorPrintf, which eventually calls PetscCallMPI, which calls PetscMallocValidate again, which fails. We need to
remove all error checking from the prints inside Validate.

  Thanks,

     Matt

PS: I'm using a arm64 mac, so I don't have access to valgrind.

Thank You,
Sajid Ali (he/him) | Research Associate
Scientific Computing Division
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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