JDK-4959566 : REG: JVM crash on RH3.0 w/ 4F533F4C494E55583F491418160E4350500306
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: runtime
  • Affected Version: 1.4.2_02
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: linux_redhat_3.0
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2003-11-25
  • Updated: 2012-10-08
  • Resolved: 2003-12-16
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1.4.2_04 04Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4917113 - PIT:JVM crash on RH 9 with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 option
Relates :  
JDK-4885046 - JDK-1.5 b08 crash on Redhat 9 in __libc_free+0x90
Description
B01:
When we ran EJB/MDBapp for RH3.0, we saw following error:

[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: #
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # Please report this error at
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: #
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 
(1.4.2_02-b03 mixed mode)
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: #
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # Error ID: 4F533F4C494E55583F491418160E4350500306
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: #
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: # Problematic Thread: prio=236941732 tid=0x05782ad0 nid=0x6550 allocated
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: #
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: Heap at VM Abort:
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] WARNING (25936): CORE3283: stderr: Heap
[24/Nov/2003:19:44:27] SEVERE ( 5365): CORE3107: Child process closed admin channel

We are using JDK1.4.2_02.
The test machine is bigsqalx4.red.iplanet.com. The instance is in /epxort/as7ur3.
We had run the test two times and got same error. If you need more info, please contact me.
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Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: 1.4.2_04 generic tiger-beta FIXED IN: 1.4.2_04 tiger-beta INTEGRATED IN: 1.4.2_04 tiger-b32 tiger-beta
14-06-2004
SUGGESTED FIX In os_linux_i486.cpp: (the same change is also needed in os_linux_amd64.cpp and os_linux_ia64.cpp) *** 563,581 **** // may return bogus value. *bottom = os::Linux::initial_thread_stack_bottom(); *size = os::Linux::initial_thread_stack_size(); } else { pthread_attr_t attr; int rslt = pthread_getattr_np(pthread_self(), &attr); ! guarantee(rslt == 0, "pthread_getattr_np must work"); void * top; if (pthread_attr_getstackaddr(&attr, &top) != 0 || pthread_attr_getstacksize(&attr, size) != 0) { fatal("Can not locate current stack attributes!"); } *bottom = (address) align_size_up((uintptr_t)top - *size, os::Linux::page_size()); *size = (address)top - *bottom; } assert(os::current_stack_pointer() >= *bottom && os::current_stack_pointer() < *bottom + *size, "just checking"); --- 563,593 ---- // may return bogus value. *bottom = os::Linux::initial_thread_stack_bottom(); *size = os::Linux::initial_thread_stack_size(); } else { pthread_attr_t attr; + pthread_attr_init(&attr); + int rslt = pthread_getattr_np(pthread_self(), &attr); ! ! // JVM needs to know exact stack location, abort if it fails ! if (rslt != 0) { ! if (rslt == ENOMEM) { ! vm_exit_out_of_memory(0, "pthread_getattr_np"); ! } else { ! fatal1("pthread_getattr_np failed with errno = %d", rslt); ! } ! } void * top; if (pthread_attr_getstackaddr(&attr, &top) != 0 || pthread_attr_getstacksize(&attr, size) != 0) { fatal("Can not locate current stack attributes!"); } + pthread_attr_destroy(&attr); + *bottom = (address) align_size_up((uintptr_t)top - *size, os::Linux::page_size()); *size = (address)top - *bottom; } assert(os::current_stack_pointer() >= *bottom && os::current_stack_pointer() < *bottom + *size, "just checking");
11-06-2004
EVALUATION The errorid points to os_linux_i486.cpp, 774; further investigation shows that a pthread_getattr_np() call just failed with ENOMEM. JVM relies on pthread_getattr_np(), so it has no choice but to abort if the call fails. Starting from Redhat AS-3 (NPTL-0.60 and later), pthread_getattr_np() will allocate memory through malloc(), the memory is freed by pthread_attr_destroy(). In JVM, we didn't call pthread_attr_destroy() after pthread_getattr_np(), this causes a small memory leak whenever pthread_getattr_np() is called (it is called during thread creation). In a long running application, especially when it has created lots of threads, the memory leaks could add up and cause an out-of-memory error. A temporary workaround is to disable NPTL by setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1. ###@###.### 2003-12-04 Fix is to call pthread_attr_destroy() after pthread_getattr_np(). It has been verified with 1.4.2_02 JDK. ###@###.### 2003-12-08 Also I've been told that the issue has been fixed on the libc side too. It will be available in the first update RHEL3 U1. ###@###.### 2003-12-08
08-12-2003
WORK AROUND set environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1, this will disable NPTL and avoid the memory leak. ###@###.### 2003-12-04
04-12-2003