[Tarantool-patches] [PATCH luajit v2 2/3] Cleanup stack overflow handling.

Maksim Kokryashkin max.kokryashkin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 02:16:46 MSK 2023


From: Mike Pall <mike>

Reported by Peter Cawley.

(cherry-picked from commit d2f6c55b05c716e5dbb479b7e684abaee7cf6e12)

After the previous patch, it is possible to trigger the
`stack overflow` error prematurely. Consider the following
situation: there are already 33000 slots allocated on a Lua
stack, and then there are 30 additional slots needed. In this
case, the actual allocated amount would be twice the already
allocated size, shrunk to the `LJ_STACK_MAXEX` size, which
would lead to the stack overflow error, despite the fact there
is plenty of unused space. This patch completely reworks the
logic of error handling during stack growth to address the issue.

Another important thing to notice is that the `LJ_ERR_STKOV` is
thrown only if the `L->status` is `LUA_OK` and that status is set
to `LUA_ERRRUN` just before throwing the error. The status is set
to `LUA_ERRRUN` to avoid the second stack overflow during the
`err_msgv` execution.

Maxim Kokryashkin:
* added the description and the test for the problem

Part of tarantool/tarantool#9145
---
 src/lj_state.c                                | 15 +++++--
 .../lj-962-premature-stack-overflow.test.c    | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-962-premature-stack-overflow.test.c

diff --git a/src/lj_state.c b/src/lj_state.c
index 76153bad..d8a5134c 100644
--- a/src/lj_state.c
+++ b/src/lj_state.c
@@ -121,8 +121,17 @@ void lj_state_shrinkstack(lua_State *L, MSize used)
 void LJ_FASTCALL lj_state_growstack(lua_State *L, MSize need)
 {
   MSize n;
-  if (L->stacksize > LJ_STACK_MAXEX)  /* Overflow while handling overflow? */
-    lj_err_throw(L, LUA_ERRERR);
+  if (L->stacksize >= LJ_STACK_MAXEX) {
+    /* 4. Throw 'error in error handling' when we are _over_ the limit. */
+    if (L->stacksize > LJ_STACK_MAXEX)
+      lj_err_throw(L, LUA_ERRERR);  /* Does not invoke an error handler. */
+    /* 1. We are _at_ the limit after the last growth. */
+    if (!L->status) {  /* 2. Throw 'stack overflow'. */
+      L->status = LUA_ERRRUN;  /* Prevent ending here again for pushed msg. */
+      lj_err_msg(L, LJ_ERR_STKOV);  /* May invoke an error handler. */
+    }
+    /* 3. Add space (over the limit) for pushed message and error handler. */
+  }
   n = L->stacksize + need;
   if (n > LJ_STACK_MAX) {
     n += 2*LUA_MINSTACK;
@@ -132,8 +141,6 @@ void LJ_FASTCALL lj_state_growstack(lua_State *L, MSize need)
       n = LJ_STACK_MAX;
   }
   resizestack(L, n);
-  if (L->stacksize >= LJ_STACK_MAXEX)
-    lj_err_msg(L, LJ_ERR_STKOV);
 }
 
 void LJ_FASTCALL lj_state_growstack1(lua_State *L)
diff --git a/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-962-premature-stack-overflow.test.c b/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-962-premature-stack-overflow.test.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd7557a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-962-premature-stack-overflow.test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#include "lua.h"
+#include "lauxlib.h"
+
+#include "test.h"
+#include "utils.h"
+
+#include "lj_obj.h"
+#include "luaconf.h"
+
+static int cur_slots = -1;
+
+static int fill_stack(lua_State *L)
+{
+	cur_slots = L->base - tvref(L->stack);
+
+	while(lua_gettop(L) < LUAI_MAXSTACK) {
+		cur_slots += 1;
+		lua_pushinteger(L, 42);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int premature_stackoverflow(void *test_state)
+{
+	lua_State *L = test_state;
+	lua_cpcall(L, fill_stack, NULL);
+	assert_true(cur_slots == LUAI_MAXSTACK - 1);
+	return TEST_EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	lua_State *L = utils_lua_init();
+	const struct test_unit tgroup[] = {
+		test_unit_def(premature_stackoverflow),
+	};
+	const int test_result = test_run_group(tgroup, L);
+	utils_lua_close(L);
+	return test_result;
+}
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)



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