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Re: Memory corruption after fork, only on AMD CPUs



On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 05:52:54PM -0500, Michael Pratt wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 1:06 PM Michael Pratt <mpratt%google.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > [This is a reply to
> > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2021/12/01/msg027830.html. I
> > just joined the mailing list and can't seem to find the metadata
> > required for a proper reply. Apologies.]
> >
> > I filed https://gnats.netbsd.org/56535 for this a while ago, which has
> > an even simpler reproducer: a direct fork() call with a child that
> > immediately exits sometimes causes memory corruption in the parent
> > process.
> >
> > We've kept looking since filing https://gnats.netbsd.org/56535 but
> > haven't had luck on further simplification. No C reproducer yet,
> > unfortunately. (No crashes if the Go parent process is single-threaded
> > either.)
> 
> I spoke too soon here, we managed to get a reproducer in C today,
> which I've posted at
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34988#issuecomment-994115345.

I can confirm it corrupts here too on my "AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor"
(on bare metal) when I run multiple instances in parallel on NetBSD 9.99.92.

Reinoud

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