[ruby-core:116560] [Ruby master Bug#20169] `GC.compact` can raises `EFAULT` on IO

Issue #20169 has been updated by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu).


I implemented a fix here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9817

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Bug #20169: `GC.compact` can raises `EFAULT` on IO
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20169#change-106577

* Author: ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN
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1. `GC.compact` introduces read barriers to detect read accesses to the pages.
2. I/O operations release GVL to pass the control while their execution, and another thread can call `GC.compact` (or auto compact feature I guess, but not checked yet).
3. Call `write(ptr)` can return `EFAULT` when `GC.compact` is running because `ptr` can point read-barrier protected pages (embed strings).

Reproducible steps:


Apply the following patch to increase possibility:

```patch
diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index f6cd2c1a56..83d67ba2dc 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -1212,8 +1212,12 @@ internal_write_func(void *ptr)
         }
     }

+    int cnt = 0;
   retry:
-    do_write_retry(write(iis->fd, iis->buf, iis->capa));
+    for (; cnt < 1000; cnt++) {
+        do_write_retry(write(iis->fd, iis->buf, iis->capa));
+        if (result <= 0) break;
+    }

     if (result < 0 && !iis->nonblock) {
         int e = errno;
```

Run the following code:

```ruby
t1 = Thread.new{ 10_000.times.map{"#{_1}"}; GC.compact while true }
t2 = Thread.new{
  i=0
  $stdout.write "<#{i+=1}>" while true
}
t2.join
```

and 

```
$ make run
(snip)
4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4><4>#<Thread:0x00007fa61b4dd758 ../../src/trunk/test.rb:3 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):
../../src/trunk/test.rb:5:in `write': Bad address @ io_write - <STDOUT> (Errno::EFAULT)
        from ../../src/trunk/test.rb:5:in `block in <main>'
../../src/trunk/test.rb:5:in `write': Bad address @ io_write - <STDOUT> (Errno::EFAULT)
        from ../../src/trunk/test.rb:5:in `block in <main>'
make: *** [uncommon.mk:1383: run] Error 1
```

I think this is why we get `EFAULT` on CI. To increase possibilities running many busy processes (`ruby -e 'loop{}'` for example) will help (and on CI environment there are such busy processes accidentally).



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