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Fix crash in garbage collector #4941

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This fixes a crash in the garbage collector.

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$ nix --version
nix (Nix) 2.4pre20210601_5985b8b

system = x86_64-linux

nixpkgs$ gh pr checkout 127744
nixpkgs$ gdb --args nix-build nixos/tests/image-contents.nix

Thread 1 "nix-build" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
(gdb) bt
0  0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
1  0x00007ffff7adeefb in GC_push_all_stacks () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
2  0x00007ffff7ad5ac7 in GC_mark_some () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
3  0x00007ffff7ad77bd in GC_stopped_mark () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
4  0x00007ffff7adbe3a in GC_try_to_collect_inner.part.0 () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
5  0x00007ffff7adc2a2 in GC_collect_or_expand () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
6  0x00007ffff7adc4f8 in GC_allocobj () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
7  0x00007ffff7adc88f in GC_generic_malloc_inner () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
8  0x00007ffff7ae1a04 in GC_generic_malloc_many () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
9  0x00007ffff7ae1c72 in GC_malloc_kind () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
10 0x00007ffff7e003d6 in nix::EvalState::allocValue() () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
11 0x00007ffff7e04b9c in nix::EvalState::callPrimOp(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
12 0x00007ffff7e0a773 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
13 0x00007ffff7e0a91d in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
14 0x00007ffff7e0a8f8 in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
15 0x00007ffff7e0e0e8 in nix::ExprOpNEq::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
16 0x00007ffff7e0d708 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
17 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
18 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
19 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
20 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
21 0x00007ffff7e09e19 in nix::ExprOpNot::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
22 0x00007ffff7e0a792 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
23 0x00007ffff7e8cba0 in nix::addPath(nix::EvalState&, nix::Pos const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Value*, nix::FileIngestionMethod, std::optional<nix::Hash>, nix::Value&)::{lambda(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)#1}::operator()(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) const () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
24 0x00007ffff752e6f9 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
25 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
26 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
27 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
28 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
29 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
30 0x00007ffff757f8c0 in void boost::context::detail::fiber_entry<boost::context::detail::fiber_record<boost::context::fiber, nix::VirtualStackAllocator, boost::coroutines2::detail::pull_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::control_block::control_block<nix::VirtualStackAllocator, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}>(boost::context::preallocated, nix::VirtualStackAllocator&&, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}&&)::{lambda(boost::context::fiber&&)#1}> >(boost::context::detail::transfer_t) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
31 0x00007ffff6f331ef in make_fcontext () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libboost_context.so.1.69.0
32 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

This is a cleaned up version of #4264. I got paranoid then because of other crashes, such as #4895. Regardless of any fears created by Boehm GC docs etc, this patch is at least more correct than the status quo and solves at least one crash.

Without this patch and #4895, I can't use nixUnstable daily, but with them, it appears that I can. That would be great news for anyone who wants to use flakes for anything but toy examples that have a low change of triggering the crashes.

This fixes a crash that looks like:

```
Thread 1 "nix-build" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
(gdb) bt
0  0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
1  0x00007ffff7adeefb in GC_push_all_stacks () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
2  0x00007ffff7ad5ac7 in GC_mark_some () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
3  0x00007ffff7ad77bd in GC_stopped_mark () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
4  0x00007ffff7adbe3a in GC_try_to_collect_inner.part.0 () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
5  0x00007ffff7adc2a2 in GC_collect_or_expand () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
6  0x00007ffff7adc4f8 in GC_allocobj () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
7  0x00007ffff7adc88f in GC_generic_malloc_inner () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
8  0x00007ffff7ae1a04 in GC_generic_malloc_many () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
9  0x00007ffff7ae1c72 in GC_malloc_kind () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
10 0x00007ffff7e003d6 in nix::EvalState::allocValue() () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
11 0x00007ffff7e04b9c in nix::EvalState::callPrimOp(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
12 0x00007ffff7e0a773 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
13 0x00007ffff7e0a91d in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
14 0x00007ffff7e0a8f8 in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
15 0x00007ffff7e0e0e8 in nix::ExprOpNEq::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
16 0x00007ffff7e0d708 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
17 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
18 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
19 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
20 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
21 0x00007ffff7e09e19 in nix::ExprOpNot::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
22 0x00007ffff7e0a792 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
23 0x00007ffff7e8cba0 in nix::addPath(nix::EvalState&, nix::Pos const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Value*, nix::FileIngestionMethod, std::optional<nix::Hash>, nix::Value&)::{lambda(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)#1}::operator()(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) const () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
24 0x00007ffff752e6f9 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
25 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
26 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
27 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
28 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
29 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
30 0x00007ffff757f8c0 in void boost::context::detail::fiber_entry<boost::context::detail::fiber_record<boost::context::fiber, nix::VirtualStackAllocator, boost::coroutines2::detail::pull_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::control_block::control_block<nix::VirtualStackAllocator, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}>(boost::context::preallocated, nix::VirtualStackAllocator&&, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}&&)::{lambda(boost::context::fiber&&)#1}> >(boost::context::detail::transfer_t) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
31 0x00007ffff6f331ef in make_fcontext () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libboost_context.so.1.69.0
32 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
```
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roberth commented Jun 24, 2021

It seems I got lucky and this patch doesn't do much to improve the situation. Sorry for the noise.

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