#!/bin/sh # Trigger a bug that would cause 'sort' to reference stale thread stack memory. # Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src print_ver_ sort very_expensive_ valgrind --help >/dev/null || skip_ "requires valgrind" grep '^#define HAVE_PTHREAD_T 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null || skip_ 'requires pthreads' # gensort output seems to trigger the failure more often, # so prefer gensort if it is available. (gensort -a 10000 in) 2>/dev/null || seq -f %-98f 10000 | shuf > in || framework_failure_ # On Fedora-17-beta (valgrind-3.7.0-2.fc17.x86_64), this evokes two # "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" errors, # each originating from _dl_start. valgrind --quiet --error-exitcode=3 sort --version > /dev/null || framework_failure_ 'valgrind fails for trivial sort invocation' # With the bug, 'sort' would fail under valgrind about half the time, # on some circa-2010 multicore Linux platforms. Run the test 100 times # so that the probability of missing the bug should be about 1 in # 2**100 on these hosts. for i in $(seq 100); do valgrind --quiet --error-exitcode=3 \ sort -S 100K --parallel=2 in > /dev/null || { fail=$?; echo iteration $i failed; Exit $fail; } done Exit $fail