Hi folks, we have a major breakage in the parallel tasks infrastructure, and I'm afraid it is already in master.
Instrument the code in sb/submodule-parallel-update like this and enjoy the fireworks of './t7400-submodule-basic.sh -v -i -x --debug': diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh index 0322282..482c7f6 100755 --- a/git-submodule.sh +++ b/git-submodule.sh @@ -690,8 +690,9 @@ cmd_update() cmd_init "--" "$@" || return fi + set -x { - git submodule--helper update-clone ${GIT_QUIET:+--quiet} \ + valgrind git submodule--helper update-clone ${GIT_QUIET:+--quiet} \ ${wt_prefix:+--prefix "$wt_prefix"} \ ${prefix:+--recursive-prefix "$prefix"} \ ${update:+--update "$update"} \ diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh index 5572327..717e491 100755 --- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh +++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ test_expect_success 'update should fail when path is used by a file' ' echo "hello" >init && test_must_fail git submodule update && + false && test_cmp expect init ' The culprit seems to be default_task_finished(), which accesses argv[] of the struct child_process after finish_command has released it, provided the child exited with an error, for example: ==3395== Invalid read of size 8 ==3395== at 0x54F991: default_task_finished (run-command.c:932) ==3395== by 0x49158F: update_clone_task_finished (submodule--helper.c:421) ==3395== by 0x5504A2: pp_collect_finished (run-command.c:1122) ==3395== by 0x5507C7: run_processes_parallel (run-command.c:1194) ==3395== by 0x4918EB: update_clone (submodule--helper.c:483) ==3395== by 0x4919D8: cmd_submodule__helper (submodule--helper.c:527) ==3395== by 0x405CBE: run_builtin (git.c:353) ==3395== by 0x405EAA: handle_builtin (git.c:540) ==3395== by 0x405FCC: run_argv (git.c:594) ==3395== by 0x4061BF: main (git.c:701) ==3395== Address 0x5e49370 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 192 free'd ==3395== at 0x4C2A37C: free (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==3395== by 0x4A26EE: argv_array_clear (argv-array.c:73) ==3395== by 0x54DFC4: child_process_clear (run-command.c:18) ==3395== by 0x54EFA7: finish_command (run-command.c:539) ==3395== by 0x550413: pp_collect_finished (run-command.c:1120) ==3395== by 0x5507C7: run_processes_parallel (run-command.c:1194) ==3395== by 0x4918EB: update_clone (submodule--helper.c:483) ==3395== by 0x4919D8: cmd_submodule__helper (submodule--helper.c:527) ==3395== by 0x405CBE: run_builtin (git.c:353) ==3395== by 0x405EAA: handle_builtin (git.c:540) ==3395== by 0x405FCC: run_argv (git.c:594) ==3395== by 0x4061BF: main (git.c:701) I haven't thought about a solution, yet. Perhaps you have ideas. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html