Bug 414053 - vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x62 0xF1 0xFE 0x8 0x6F 0x45 0x0 0xC5 0xF8 0x11
Summary: vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x62 0xF1 0xFE 0x8 0x6F 0x45 0x0 ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 393351
Alias: None
Product: valgrind
Classification: Developer tools
Component: vex (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Julian Seward
URL:
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2019-11-12 08:00 UTC by jody
Modified: 2024-02-25 02:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
valgrind log file and sample source code (3.25 KB, application/zip)
2019-11-12 08:00 UTC, jody
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Description jody 2019-11-12 08:00:12 UTC
Created attachment 123851 [details]
valgrind log file and sample source code

SUMMARY
When valgrind is used on an application with hdf5, an "unhandled instruction bytes" error is displayed (cf vg_log.txt)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. compile sample program with hdf5:
   g++ -g h5simple.cpp -lhdf5 -o h5s_9.2.0
2. run it with valgrind
   valgrind -v --log-file=vg_log.txt ./h5s_9.2.0
 
OBSERVED RESULT
Valgrind halts execution with "unhandled instruction bytes" message.


EXPECTED RESULT
"Normal" valgrind mem-check operation 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux aim-frog 4.19.66-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 09:32:22 -00 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2195 CPU @ 2.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Outside of valgrind the application runs without errors.
I could reproduce the error with valgrind versions 3.13.0, 3.14.0, 3.15.0.
It is independent of the compiler i used (gcc 6.4.0,7.4.0,8.3.0,9.2.0)
The version of hdf5 is 1.10.5
Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2019-11-12 08:55:54 UTC
Here's the actual detail extracted from the attached log:

vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x62 0xF1 0xFE 0x8 0x6F 0x45 0x0 0xC5 0xF8 0x11
vex amd64->IR:   REX=0 REX.W=0 REX.R=0 REX.X=0 REX.B=0
vex amd64->IR:   VEX=0 VEX.L=0 VEX.nVVVV=0x0 ESC=NONE
vex amd64->IR:   PFX.66=0 PFX.F2=0 PFX.F3=0
==35078== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x4a50820.
==35078==    at 0x4A50820: H5P_dup_prop (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x4A52465: H5P__do_prop_cb1.part.13 (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x4A51C01: H5P_create_id (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x4A52155: H5P__init_package (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x4A522C7: H5P_init (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x48C60ED: H5_init_library (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x48C690F: H5open (in /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.103.1.0)
==35078==    by 0x1091C8: main (h5simple.cpp:6)
Comment 2 Tom Hughes 2019-12-08 15:18:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393351 ***
Comment 3 Julian Seward 2019-12-29 09:36:55 UTC
This bug has been reported 5 times in the past year, as bug numbers 393351,
409999, 414944, 411303 and 414053.  I would like to fix it.  I tried the
steps-to-reproduce shown in bugs 393351 and 414053, but without success: I
can't reproduce it either with the trunk or with 3.15.0.

Without being able to reproduce it, I can't fix it.  The first unhandled byte,
0x62, isn't the start of any known instruction (in 64-bit mode), so I suspect
there has been some failure earlier on.  Maybe Valgrind's instruction decoder
lost track of where it was on the previous instruction.  That's just a guess,
though.

What would be really helpful is if someone could reproduce the failure, and
then use objdump -d to show the instructions around the failure point.  I can
give guidance on how to use objdump if that helps.  If you want to try this, I
suggest you first reproduce the failure while giving --demangle=no
--sym-offsets=yes to Valgrind.  That will make it much easier to relate the
stack trace that Valgrind produces at the failure point, to the output of
objdump -d.