Bug 299714

Summary:	KSharedDataCache/KIcon triggers a bus error
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Component:	kshareddatacache	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	major	CC:	aleixpol, mpyne
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309824
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	More error-handling for KSharedDataCache

Description Aleix Pol 2012-05-10 00:59:48 UTC

In one of the unit tests in KDevelop I a "Bus Error" (SIGBUS). If I run it on valgrind, I get the following backtrace. Looks like a bug in KSharedDataCache...

==1917== Warning: set address range perms: large range [0x39446000, 0x86877000) (defined)
==1917== 
==1917== Process terminating with default action of signal 7 (SIGBUS)
==1917==  Non-existent physical address at address 0x39446048
==1917==    at 0x9D7594B: KSharedDataCache::Private::lock() const (kshareddatacache.cpp:1131)
==1917==    by 0x9D75B0F: KSharedDataCache::Private::CacheLocker::cautiousLock() (kshareddatacache.cpp:1154)
==1917==    by 0x9D75E8B: KSharedDataCache::Private::CacheLocker::CacheLocker(KSharedDataCache::Private const*) (kshareddatacache.cpp:1229)
==1917==    by 0x9D72BA8: KSharedDataCache::find(QString const&, QByteArray*) const (kshareddatacache.cpp:1508)
==1917==    by 0x86A6534: KIconLoaderPrivate::findCachedPixmapWithPath(QString const&, QPixmap&, QString&) (kiconloader.cpp:860)
==1917==    by 0x86A7CF2: KIconLoader::loadIcon(QString const&, KIconLoader::Group, int, int, QStringList const&, QString*, bool) const (kiconloader.cpp:1222)
==1917==    by 0x86A270C: KIconEngine::pixmap(QSize const&, QIcon::Mode, QIcon::State) (kiconengine.cpp:104)
==1917==    by 0x8E6BEC4: QIcon::pixmap(QSize const&, QIcon::Mode, QIcon::State) const (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.1)
==1917==    by 0x60AE372: Sublime::AreaTabButton::AreaTabButton(QString, QIcon, unsigned int, QWidget*, bool, QWidget*) (mainwindow_p.cpp:831)
==1917==    by 0x60A7044: Sublime::AreaTabBar::addCustomTab(QString, QIcon, bool, QString, QWidget*) (mainwindow_p.h:97)
==1917==    by 0x60A429F: Sublime::MainWindow::setupAreaSelector() (mainwindow.cpp:104)
==1917==    by 0x63498A8: KDevelop::MainWindow::loadSettings() (mainwindow.cpp:208)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile kdevelop
2. run <builddir>/languages/cpp/tests/buddiestest
3. boom

Comment 1 Michael Pyne 2012-05-11 00:23:05 UTC

The testsuite passes here without issue. :-/

KSharedDataCache does probably need better error-checking though, no excuse for a corrupted cache to induce SIGBUS.

Comment 2 Aleix Pol 2012-05-11 00:40:15 UTC

Yes, I've discussed with Milian (also from kdevelop) and he can't reproduce it either.

Do you have any idea of how can I figure out what's going on?

Comment 3 Michael Pyne 2012-05-11 00:47:41 UTC

Specifically what's going on, probably not. It's undoubtedly a corrupted cache file somehow so a quick fix would be to delete the icon cache (normally /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/icon-cache.kcache).

There's a debug area for KSharedDataCache and KIconLoader which you can enable as well, might tell you which icon ended up corrupted.

Comment 4 Aleix Pol 2012-05-11 01:05:03 UTC

I don't have this directory for this user (the kde-devel user), the other one does, though. Could that be a problem?

I added those debug areas and they're not adding any output :/

Comment 5 Michael Pyne 2012-05-11 01:13:23 UTC

Well, it's possible that the missing directory is the issue, but then KSharedDataCache should fail much earlier in the process... the exact setting for the directory is returned by "kde4-config --path cache", which should return /something/ even for your kde-devel user, I would hope!

Comment 6 Aleix Pol 2012-05-11 01:58:54 UTC

kde-devel@thinktatil:~/build-kdevelop/languages/cpp$ kde4-config --path cache
/home/kde-devel/.kde4/cache-thinktatil/

So I removed the icon cache, I keep having this problem, the SIGBUS... :/

Comment 7 Michael Pyne 2012-05-18 04:11:16 UTC

Created attachment 71175 [details]
More error-handling for KSharedDataCache

Aleix, if you're still experiencing the crash then please test this patch. It adds more error checking against invalid data page access, valid cache page sizes, etc. I've tried replacing some caches with random data here without leading to crashes so hopefully it makes it a bit more resilient for you at least.

Comment 8 Aleix Pol 2014-12-30 00:38:34 UTC

Haven't had it for a while, and not really using that codebase anymore. Closing.