On Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:34:52 CEST Nikita Popov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM, Heinz Wiesinger <hmwiesin...@liwjatan.at>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > 
> > I ventured into writing my first PHP extension and did pretty well so far
> > following the existing documentation and example code inside the php
> > source.
> > 
> > However, I hit an odd bug in my code that I can't quite explain. I'm
> > obviously
> > missing something and I hope someone here can point me in the right
> > direction
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > I'd like to set up a request global hashtable. For now I'm running
> > ALLOC_HASHTABLE() and zend_hash_init() inside PHP_GINIT_FUNCTION. I then
> > have
> > a user function that's supposed to add entries to that hashtable and
> > another
> > user function that reads entries from the hashtable.
> > 
> > I tested with code passed directly on the command line (using php -r) and
> > that
> > works just like I would expect it too. The value gets written to the
> > hashtable
> > and I can read it afterwards from the other function. I also verified it's
> > the
> > same value that I first stored, so from what I can tell the basic
> > functionality is good.
> > 
> > When I take the same testcode and write it into a file, and then run php
> > on
> > that file, execution aborts trying to allocate almost 2GB of memory when
> > trying to store the value in the hashtable (using zend_hash_update()). I
> > can
> > see PHP_GINIT_FUNCTION being executed in that case as well so I'd assume
> > the
> > hashtable is setup just fine. Yet something is different.
> > 
> > What's the difference between " php -r '' " and "php test.php" in that
> > regard?
> > 
> > I uploaded my current state of the extension to github in case someone
> > would
> > like to take a closer look at the code: https://github.com/pprkut/
> > autoload-psr
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > Grs,
> > Heinz
> 
> https://github.com/pprkut/autoload-psr/blob/27cfc53c864116cf0b65b8f7e69464e1
> 5b3fdef5/autoload_psr.c#L175 should be using ZVAL_STR_COPY. The hashtable
> API does not automatically incref stored values.
> 
> I'd suggest running under USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind to check for further
> memory issues. Differences in the mode of execution are likely just
> incidental.

Thanks for the pointers! I tried running it under valgrind, but couldn't find 
anything. So I tried without valgrind, but with USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 and found 
that I can't reproduce the problem like that. Looks to me that something I do 
doesn't play well with the zend allocator.

Incidentally valgrind also doesn't tell me about the issue with ZVAL_STR that 
you pointed out. Maybe I'm using it wrong? I tried

USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full php -
dextension=modules/autoload_psr.so test2.php

Grs,
Heinz

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