debug/tests: tolerate libbacktrace fork failure in crash log test - #4444
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Under Valgrind the server processes commands 100–1000x slower than normal. The test sets a key with a 50 ms TTL and then immediately WATCHes it. If Valgrind's overhead causes the WATCH to be processed more than 50 ms after the SET, keyIsExpired() fires inside watchForKey() and marks the key as "already expired when WATCHed" (wk->expired = 1). isWatchedKeyExpired() then skips the key (line 457: "if (wk->expired) continue"), so EXEC commits instead of aborting, and the test fails. Scale the TTL (50 ms → 5 s) and the wait (100 ms → 10 s) when running under Valgrind so that the WATCH is always processed before the TTL elapses and the wait is always long enough for expiry to occur before EXEC. Fixes valkey-io#4407 Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Kabra <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xsidz <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com>
…tect When libsystemd is auto-detected, USE_SYSTEMD is empty but BUILD_WITH_SYSTEMD=yes and server.o ends up in libvalkey.a with calls to sd_notify. src/unit/Makefile includes ../.make-settings but that file only recorded USE_SYSTEMD (empty), so the unit-test binary never got -lsystemd and the link failed. Persist BUILD_WITH_SYSTEMD and LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS in persist-settings, and add a parallel ifeq block in src/unit/Makefile alongside the existing BUILD_TLS and USE_LIBBACKTRACE blocks. Fixes valkey-io#4338 Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Kabra <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xsidz <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com>
stringmatchlen_impl re-parsed the [...] class body on every recursive call from the * backtracking loop, making the cost O(class_size * string_len) rather than O(class_size + string_len). A single KEYS/SCAN/PSUBSCRIBE call with a large character class (*[40000 x 'z']) stalled the server for 2-3 seconds per command. Fix: build a 256-bit membership bitmask once while advancing past the class body, then check string[0] against the bitmask in O(1). The bitmask is 32 bytes on the stack, allocated once per class per call frame (not per * backtrack position). Behaviour is unchanged for single chars and ranges. For escaped chars inside a nocase pattern, nocase is now applied uniformly (tolower before storing into the bitmask), which also corrects the related bug noted in valkey-io#2161. Add TestStringmatchlenCharClass covering basic membership, ranges, negation, nocase, and a 40 000-member class for both matching and non-matching cases. Fixes valkey-io#4411 Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Kabra <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xsidz <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com>
When fork() is blocked inside a signal handler (e.g. under a container seccomp policy), symbolizeWithLibbacktrace falls back to backtrace_symbols_fd which writes execinfo-format lines, not the #<n> 0x... format that libbacktrace produces. The test then finds zero "#. 0x" occurrences and fails even though the backtrace machinery itself is working. Two changes: 1. src/debug.c: write a recognizable log line "(libbacktrace: fork failed, using fallback symbolizer)" before falling back, so the test can detect the situation. 2. tests/integration/logging.tcl: skip the #. 0x assertion when that message appears, or when the already-existing "libbacktrace failed to resolve symbols" message appears. Both mean libbacktrace was compiled in but could not produce its native frame format; requiring #. 0x in that case is a false positive. Fixes the consistent failure of "Generate stacktrace on assertion" and "Crash report generated on DEBUG SEGFAULT" on test-fedorarawhide-tls-module (issues valkey-io#4358, valkey-io#4227). Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Kabra <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xsidz <siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR optimizes character-class matching, improves libbacktrace fallback diagnostics, persists systemd build settings, links systemd libraries in unit tests, and adjusts integration tests for fallback symbolization and Valgrind timing. ChangesCharacter-class matching
Libbacktrace diagnostics
Systemd build settings
Valgrind test timing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR improves crash-log handling, but the current changes still leave concrete merge-readiness risks: build flags may become stale, wildcard matching can regress on large character classes, and one valid symbolization fallback can still make the integration test fail. These issues should be addressed before merging. Possibly related PRs
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| stringLen--; | ||
| break; | ||
| case '[': { | ||
| /* Build a 256-bit membership bitmask from the class body once. |
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This bitmask is local to each recursive call, so the * loop at src/util.c:81 still rebuilds it for every candidate position. I instrumented HEAD with *[40000 × 'z'] against 100,000 'a' bytes: the class body was parsed 4,000,000,000 times and took 7.75 seconds at -O3. The added test only uses a three-byte string, so it cannot catch the original O(class_size * string_len) behavior. Preparse/cache the class outside the * retry loop (or otherwise carry the compiled mask across retries) and add a long non-matching input regression.
| int start = pattern[0]; | ||
| int end = pattern[2]; | ||
| int c = string[0]; | ||
| if (nocase) { |
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Lowercasing the endpoints before normalizing their order changes existing nocase range semantics. For example, the base code normalizes [Z-a] as the byte range Z..a and then folds the candidate, so it matches punctuation such as [ but not letters; HEAD folds to z..a, swaps that to a..z, and matches letters instead. Differential testing confirms this behavior change. Preserve the old order—swap the raw endpoints first, then apply tolower—unless changing user-visible glob semantics is intentional and separately tested/documented.
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In `@src/debug.c`:
- Around line 1917-1924: Update the fork-failure diagnostic in the symbolization
path so the message does not claim fallback symbolization when HAVE_EXECINFO is
unavailable. Use a neutral fork-failed message or emit the fallback claim only
within the HAVE_EXECINFO branch, while preserving the existing
backtrace_symbols_fd and no-fallback diagnostics.
In `@src/Makefile`:
- Around line 685-686: Update the .make-settings refresh logic near the systemd
settings to persist the previous LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS value and compare it alongside
FINAL_CFLAGS and FINAL_LDFLAGS. Ensure a changed LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS triggers
regeneration of dependent Makefiles, while preserving the existing refresh
behavior when the other flags change.
In `@src/unit/test_util.cpp`:
- Around line 347-359: Add assertions to TestStringmatchlenCharClass covering
escaped character handling with a pattern such as "[\\]]" matching "]", and
reversed-range handling with "[z-a]" matching "m".
In `@src/util.c`:
- Around line 107-111: Move or cache the character-class bitmask construction
associated with the local unsigned char bitmask outside the retry loop used by
the * handling in stringmatchlen_impl(), so repeated suffix attempts reuse one
representation instead of rescanning the class. Preserve the existing matching
behavior and bitmask optimization for all other pattern tokens.
In `@tests/integration/logging.tcl`:
- Around line 38-49: Update the libbacktrace fallback handling in the relevant
debug path to emit a stable diagnostic when backtrace_create_state() returns
NULL, then include that diagnostic’s prefix in the libbt_unavailable check in
the logging test. Revise the nearby comment to state that execinfo format is
used when available, while preserving the existing fork-failure and
symbol-resolution checks.
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| const char *fork_msg = "(libbacktrace: fork failed, using fallback symbolizer)\n"; | ||
| if (write(fd, fork_msg, strlen(fork_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | ||
| } | ||
| #ifdef HAVE_EXECINFO | ||
| backtrace_symbols_fd(trace + uplevel, trace_size - uplevel, fd); | ||
| #else | ||
| char *msg = "(fork failed, no fallback available)\n"; | ||
| if (write(fd, msg, strlen(msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | ||
| const char *no_fb_msg = "(no fallback symbolizer available)\n"; | ||
| if (write(fd, no_fb_msg, strlen(no_fb_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not claim fallback symbolization when no fallback exists.
When HAVE_EXECINFO is not defined, Lines [1917-1919] log using fallback symbolizer, but Lines [1923-1924] report that no fallback is available. Use a neutral libbacktrace: fork failed message, or emit the detailed message only in the HAVE_EXECINFO branch.
This finding is based on the two compile-time branches in the provided src/debug.c code.
Proposed diagnostic fix
- const char *fork_msg = "(libbacktrace: fork failed, using fallback symbolizer)\n";
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| const char *fork_msg = "(libbacktrace: fork failed, using fallback symbolizer)\n"; | |
| if (write(fd, fork_msg, strlen(fork_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | |
| } | |
| #ifdef HAVE_EXECINFO | |
| backtrace_symbols_fd(trace + uplevel, trace_size - uplevel, fd); | |
| #else | |
| char *msg = "(fork failed, no fallback available)\n"; | |
| if (write(fd, msg, strlen(msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | |
| const char *no_fb_msg = "(no fallback symbolizer available)\n"; | |
| if (write(fd, no_fb_msg, strlen(no_fb_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | |
| const char *fork_msg = "(libbacktrace: fork failed)\n"; | |
| if (write(fd, fork_msg, strlen(fork_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ | |
| } | |
| #ifdef HAVE_EXECINFO | |
| backtrace_symbols_fd(trace + uplevel, trace_size - uplevel, fd); | |
| #else | |
| const char *no_fb_msg = "(no fallback symbolizer available)\n"; | |
| if (write(fd, no_fb_msg, strlen(no_fb_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */ |
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In `@src/debug.c` around lines 1917 - 1924, Update the fork-failure diagnostic in
the symbolization path so the message does not claim fallback symbolization when
HAVE_EXECINFO is unavailable. Use a neutral fork-failed message or emit the
fallback claim only within the HAVE_EXECINFO branch, while preserving the
existing backtrace_symbols_fd and no-fallback diagnostics.
| echo BUILD_WITH_SYSTEMD=$(BUILD_WITH_SYSTEMD) >> .make-settings | ||
| echo LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS=$(LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS) >> .make-settings |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Refresh persisted systemd linker flags when they change.
Line 686 writes LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS to .make-settings, but the refresh logic shown at Lines 706-712 compares only FINAL_CFLAGS and FINAL_LDFLAGS. A pkg-config change can update LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS while both comparisons remain equal. Then src/unit/Makefile can link with stale or missing systemd flags. Persist previous systemd values and include them in the refresh condition.
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In `@src/Makefile` around lines 685 - 686, Update the .make-settings refresh logic
near the systemd settings to persist the previous LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS value and
compare it alongside FINAL_CFLAGS and FINAL_LDFLAGS. Ensure a changed
LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS triggers regeneration of dependent Makefiles, while preserving
the existing refresh behavior when the other flags change.
| TEST_F(UtilTest, TestStringmatchlenCharClass) { | ||
| /* Basic class membership */ | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "a", 1, 0)); | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "b", 1, 0)); | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "d", 1, 0)); | ||
| /* Range */ | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "m", 1, 0)); | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 0)); | ||
| /* Negation */ | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "a", 1, 0)); | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "d", 1, 0)); | ||
| /* nocase */ | ||
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 1)); |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add coverage for escaped characters and reversed ranges.
The fixture does not execute the escaped-character branch or the reversed-range branch in src/util.c. Add assertions such as "[\\]]" matching "]" and "[z-a]" matching "m".
Proposed test additions
/* nocase */
ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 1));
+ /* Escaped class character */
+ ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[\\]]", 4, "]", 1, 0));
+ /* Reversed range */
+ ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[z-a]", 5, "m", 1, 0));As per coding guidelines, “Code changes should include relevant tests when the repository has a matching test location.”
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| TEST_F(UtilTest, TestStringmatchlenCharClass) { | |
| /* Basic class membership */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "a", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "b", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "d", 1, 0)); | |
| /* Range */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "m", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 0)); | |
| /* Negation */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "a", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "d", 1, 0)); | |
| /* nocase */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 1)); | |
| TEST_F(UtilTest, TestStringmatchlenCharClass) { | |
| /* Basic class membership */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "a", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "b", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[abc]", 5, "d", 1, 0)); | |
| /* Range */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "m", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 0)); | |
| /* Negation */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(0, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "a", 1, 0)); | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[^abc]", 6, "d", 1, 0)); | |
| /* nocase */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[a-z]", 5, "A", 1, 1)); | |
| /* Escaped class character */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[\\]]", 4, "]", 1, 0)); | |
| /* Reversed range */ | |
| ASSERT_EQ(1, stringmatchlen("[z-a]", 5, "m", 1, 0)); |
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In `@src/unit/test_util.cpp` around lines 347 - 359, Add assertions to
TestStringmatchlenCharClass covering escaped character handling with a pattern
such as "[\\]]" matching "]", and reversed-range handling with "[z-a]" matching
"m".
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| /* Build a 256-bit membership bitmask from the class body once. | ||
| * Cost is O(class_size) here rather than O(class_size) per * | ||
| * backtrack position, turning O(class_size * string_len) into | ||
| * O(class_size + string_len). */ | ||
| unsigned char bitmask[32] = {0}; |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve the optimization for character classes after *.
* calls stringmatchlen_impl() once for each remaining string suffix. Each call rebuilds this mask when the next pattern token is [. A pattern such as *[40000×z] against a long non-matching string still scans the full class for every suffix.
Build or cache the class representation outside the retry loop. The current tests/unit/test_util.cpp case uses only "abc", so it does not expose this path at scale.
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In `@src/util.c` around lines 107 - 111, Move or cache the character-class bitmask
construction associated with the local unsigned char bitmask outside the retry
loop used by the * handling in stringmatchlen_impl(), so repeated suffix
attempts reuse one representation instead of rescanning the class. Preserve the
existing matching behavior and bitmask optimization for all other pattern
tokens.
| # This format is specific to libbacktrace; execinfo.h uses a different format. | ||
| # Skip when fork() failed inside the signal handler (e.g. seccomp container) or | ||
| # when libbacktrace could not resolve symbols — both cases fall back to execinfo | ||
| # format and log a distinguishing message. | ||
| if {[catch {exec grep -a "initLibbacktraceFrameState" $::VALKEY_SERVER_BIN}] == 0} { | ||
| assert_range [count_log_message 0 "#. 0x"] 1 999 | ||
| set libbt_unavailable [expr { | ||
| [count_log_message 0 "libbacktrace: fork failed"] > 0 || | ||
| [count_log_message 0 "libbacktrace failed to resolve symbols"] > 0 | ||
| }] | ||
| if {!$libbt_unavailable} { | ||
| assert_range [count_log_message 0 "#. 0x"] 1 999 | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Handle every libbacktrace fallback path.
The condition recognizes only fork failure and symbol-resolution failure. In src/debug.c, Lines [1887-1890] also call backtrace_symbols_fd when backtrace_create_state() returns NULL under HAVE_EXECINFO, without either message checked here. That output does not contain #. 0x, so this test can still fail in a valid fallback path. Add a stable state-creation diagnostic and include its prefix in libbt_unavailable. Change the comment to say execinfo format is used when available.
These findings use the fallback branches in src/debug.c and the changed assertion in tests/integration/logging.tcl.
Proposed fallback-contract fix
--- src/debug.c
+++ src/debug.c
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`#ifdef` HAVE_EXECINFO
+ const char *state_msg = "(libbacktrace state creation failed, falling back to standard backtrace)\n";
+ if (write(fd, state_msg, strlen(state_msg)) == -1) { /* Avoid warning. */
+ }
backtrace_symbols_fd(trace + uplevel, trace_size - uplevel, fd);
--- tests/integration/logging.tcl
+++ tests/integration/logging.tcl
@@
- # format and log a distinguishing message.
+ # format when available and log a distinguishing message.
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[count_log_message 0 "libbacktrace: fork failed"] > 0 ||
- [count_log_message 0 "libbacktrace failed to resolve symbols"] > 0
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In `@tests/integration/logging.tcl` around lines 38 - 49, Update the libbacktrace
fallback handling in the relevant debug path to emit a stable diagnostic when
backtrace_create_state() returns NULL, then include that diagnostic’s prefix in
the libbt_unavailable check in the logging test. Revise the nearby comment to
state that execinfo format is used when available, while preserving the existing
fork-failure and symbol-resolution checks.
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Summary
fork()fails insidesymbolizeWithLibbacktrace.#. 0xassertion in the crash-log test when libbacktrace fell back to execinfo format.Root cause
symbolizeWithLibbacktraceforks a child to run libbacktrace (which is not async-signal-safe). On some environments — notably containers with strict seccomp policies such astest-fedorarawhide-tls-module—fork()fails inside a signal handler. The code then falls back tobacktrace_symbols_fd, which writes execinfo-format lines (/path(func+0x...)[0x...]), not the#N 0x...format libbacktrace produces. The test grep for#. 0xreturns 0 and fails even though the crash handler is otherwise working correctly.The same failure path triggers when the child process is killed by the 500 ms timeout (libbacktrace slow on debug-info-heavy builds) or when
backtrace_create_statereturns NULL in the child.Fix
src/debug.c: emit"(libbacktrace: fork failed, using fallback symbolizer)"before taking the execinfo fallback. This gives the test a stable string to detect.tests/integration/logging.tcl: when libbacktrace is compiled in (initLibbacktraceFrameStatepresent in binary), skip the#. 0xassertion if either the new fork-failed message or the existing"libbacktrace failed to resolve symbols"message appears in the log. Both indicate that libbacktrace could not produce its native frame format — the test should not require it in those cases.Test plan
./runtest --single tests/integration/logging.tclpasses locally on Linuxfork()succeeds and libbacktrace works normallyFixes #4358
Fixes #4227
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Kabra siddhesh.kabraa@gmail.com