[Tarantool-patches] [PATCH luajit] Correctly close VM state after early OOM during open.

Sergey Bronnikov sergeyb at tarantool.org
Tue Sep 9 11:22:00 MSK 2025


Hi, Sergey,

thanks for the patch! LGTM with a minor comment.

Sergey

On 8/19/25 10:40, Sergey Kaplun wrote:
> From: Mike Pall <mike>
>
> Reported by Assumeru.
>
> (cherry picked from commit 5ca25ee83ec1b0343556cd5783ade449676b4037)
>
> `lua_newstate()` sets `g->str.mask` to `~(MSize)0` before calling
> `cpluaopen(). If OOM happens before the `lj_str_init()` call,
> `lj_gc_freeall()` calls `gc_sweepstr()` in a loop with incorrect top
> limit `g->str.mask`, which leads to the crash.
>
> This patch changes the order of the loop iteration with the correct
> bottom limit.
>
> Sergey Kaplun:
> * added the description and the test for the problem
>
> Part of tarantool/tarantool#11691
> ---
>
> Branch:https://github.com/tarantool/luajit/tree/skaplun/lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM
> Related issues:
> *https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/11691
> *https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1248
> *https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1311
>
> Note: The test works for the GC64 build only, since we can't set a
> custom allocator for the non-GC64 LJ_64 build. Also, to avoid failures
> related to the lj-1311 the !LJ_NO_UNWIND builds are disabled.

Just for the record: CMake configuration for reproducing the issue:

CFLAGS="-DLJ_NO_UNWIND" cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang 
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug 
-DLUA_USE_ASSERT=ON -DLUA_USE_APICHECK=ON -DLUAJIT_ENABLE_GC64=ON

>
>   src/lj_gc.c                                   |  5 +-
>   .../lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM.test.c      | 71 +++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM.test.c
>
> diff --git a/src/lj_gc.c b/src/lj_gc.c
> index f455b55b..3142482f 100644
> --- a/src/lj_gc.c
> +++ b/src/lj_gc.c
> @@ -598,12 +598,11 @@ void lj_gc_finalize_cdata(lua_State *L)
>   /* Free all remaining GC objects. */
>   void lj_gc_freeall(global_State *g)
>   {
> -  MSize i, strmask;
> +  MSize i;
>     /* Free everything, except super-fixed objects (the main thread). */
>     g->gc.currentwhite = LJ_GC_WHITES | LJ_GC_SFIXED;
>     gc_fullsweep(g, &g->gc.root);
> -  strmask = g->strmask;
> -  for (i = 0; i <= strmask; i++)  /* Free all string hash chains. */
> +  for (i = g->strmask; i != ~(MSize)0; i--)  /* Free all string hash chains. */
>       gc_fullsweep(g, &g->strhash[i]);
>   }
>   
> diff --git a/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM.test.c b/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM.test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..6c9cb2ca
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test/tarantool-c-tests/lj-1248-close-state-early-OOM.test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
> +#include "lua.h"
> +/* XXX: The "lj_arch.h" header is included for the skipcond. */
> +#include "lj_arch.h"
> +
> +#include "test.h"
> +
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * LuaJIT requires at least 12000 something bytes for initial
> + * allocations. The `GG_State` requires a little bit more than
> + * 6000 bytes (around 3000 bytes is the `jit_State`).
> + */
> +
> +/* Currently allocated Lua memory and its limit. */
> +static size_t current_memory = 0;
> +const size_t memory_limit = 7000;
> +
> +void *limited_alloc_f(void *msp, void *ptr, size_t osize, size_t nsize)
> +{
> +	void *ret_ptr = NULL;
> +	/* Overflow is OK here. */
> +	const size_t requested_diff = nsize - osize;
> +	(void)msp;
> +
> +	if (current_memory + requested_diff > memory_limit)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	if (nsize == 0) {
> +		free(ptr);
> +		current_memory -= osize;
> +	} else if (ptr == NULL) {
> +		ret_ptr = malloc(nsize);
> +		current_memory += ret_ptr ? nsize : 0;
> +	} else {
> +		ret_ptr = realloc(ptr, nsize);
> +		current_memory += ret_ptr ? requested_diff : 0;
> +	}
> +	return ret_ptr;
> +}
> +
> +static int limited_memory_on_lua_newstate(void *test_state)
> +{
> +	(void)test_state;
> +#if LJ_64 && !LJ_GC64
> +	(void)limited_alloc_f;
> +	return skip("Can't use custom allocator for 64-bit host without GC64");
> +#else
> +	/*
> +	 * Check that there is no crash and the limit is small enough.
> +	 */
> +	lua_State *L = lua_newstate(limited_alloc_f, NULL);
s/lua_State/const lua_State/
> +	assert_true(L == NULL);
> +	return TEST_EXIT_SUCCESS;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +#ifndef LJ_NO_UNWIND
> +#  define LJ_NO_UNWIND 0
> +#endif
> +
> +int main(void)
> +{
> +	/* Seehttps://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1311. */
> +	if (!LJ_NO_UNWIND)
> +		return skip_all("Disabled for external unwinding build due to #1311");
> +	const struct test_unit tgroup[] = {
> +		test_unit_def(limited_memory_on_lua_newstate),
> +	};
> +	return test_run_group(tgroup, NULL);
> +}
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