Looks to me like a false positive - we do malloc some space, and do access 
different parts of it. However, it looks like we are inside the space at all 
times.

I’d suppress it


> On Jul 23, 2015, at 12:47 AM, Schlottke-Lakemper, Michael 
> <m.schlottke-lakem...@aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> recently we’ve been getting a Valgrind error in PMPI_Init for our suite of 
> regression tests:
> 
> ==5922== Invalid read of size 4
> ==5922==    at 0x61CC5C0: opal_os_dirpath_create (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-pal.so.6.2.2)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F207E5: orte_session_dir (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F34F04: orte_ess_base_app_setup (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x7E96679: rte_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/openmpi/mca_ess_env.so)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F12A77: orte_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x509883C: ompi_mpi_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libmpi.so.1.6.2)
> ==5922==    by 0x50B843A: PMPI_Init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libmpi.so.1.6.2)
> ==5922==    by 0xEBA79C: ZFS::run() (in 
> /aia/r018/scratch/mic/.zfstester/.zacc_cron/zacc_cron_r9063/zfs_gnu_production)
> ==5922==    by 0x4DC243: main (in 
> /aia/r018/scratch/mic/.zfstester/.zacc_cron/zacc_cron_r9063/zfs_gnu_production)
> ==5922==  Address 0x710f670 is 48 bytes inside a block of size 51 alloc'd
> ==5922==    at 0x4C29110: malloc (in 
> /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==5922==    by 0x61CC572: opal_os_dirpath_create (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-pal.so.6.2.2)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F207E5: orte_session_dir (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F34F04: orte_ess_base_app_setup (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x7E96679: rte_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/openmpi/mca_ess_env.so)
> ==5922==    by 0x5F12A77: orte_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libopen-rte.so.7.0.6)
> ==5922==    by 0x509883C: ompi_mpi_init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libmpi.so.1.6.2)
> ==5922==    by 0x50B843A: PMPI_Init (in 
> /aia/opt/openmpi-1.8.7/lib64/libmpi.so.1.6.2)
> ==5922==    by 0xEBA79C: ZFS::run() (in 
> /aia/r018/scratch/mic/.zfstester/.zacc_cron/zacc_cron_r9063/zfs_gnu_production)
> ==5922==    by 0x4DC243: main (in 
> /aia/r018/scratch/mic/.zfstester/.zacc_cron/zacc_cron_r9063/zfs_gnu_production)
> ==5922==
> 
> What is weird is that it seems to depend on the pbs/torque session we’re in: 
> sometimes the error does not occur and all and all tests run fine (this is in 
> fact the only Valgrind error we’re having at the moment). Other times every 
> single test we’re running has this error.
> 
> Has anyone seen this or might be able to offer an explanation? If it is a 
> false-positive, I’d be happy to suppress it :)
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance
> 
> Michael
> 
> P.S.: This error is not covered/suppressed by the default ompi suppression 
> file in $PREFIX/share/openmpi.
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Schlottke-Lakemper
> 
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