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Subject[BUG] Invalid return address of mmap() followed by mbind() in multithreaded context
Hi,

I am implementing a multithreaded numa aware code where each thread
mmap()'s an anonymous private region and then mbind()'s it to its local
node. The threads are performing a series of such mmap() + mbind()
operations. My program crashed with SIGSEGV and I noticed that mmap()
returned an invalid address.

I am sending you a simple program that reproduces the error. The program
creates two threads and each thread starts allocating pages and then
binds them to the local node 0. After a number of iterations the program
crashes as it tries to dereference the address returned by mmap(). The
bug doesn't come up when using a single thread, neither when using only
mmap().

I am running a 2.6.39.1 kernel on a 64-bit dual-core machine, but I
tracked this bug back down to the 2.6.34.9 version.

This bug also affects libnuma.

Regards,
--
V.K.


#include <assert.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <numaif.h>

#define NR_ITER 10240
#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

void *thread_func(void *args)
{
unsigned char *addr;
int err, i;
unsigned long node = 0x1;

for (i = 0; i < NR_ITER; i++) {
addr = mmap(0, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
if (addr == (void *) -1) {
assert(0 && "mmap failed");
}
*addr = 0;

err = mbind(addr, PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_BIND, &node, sizeof(node), 0);
if (err < 0) {
assert(0 && "mbind failed");
}
}
return (void *) 0;
}

int main(void)
{
pthread_t thread;
pthread_create(&thread, NULL, thread_func, NULL);
thread_func(NULL);
pthread_join(thread, NULL);
return 0;
}
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