[ruby-core:28655] [Bug #2962] fork + Array#shuffle segfault

Bug #2962: fork + Array#shuffle segfault
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2962

Author: Eric Wong
Status: Open, Priority: High
Category: core
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [x86_64-linux]

Using Array#shuffle after forking causes a segmentation fault
with 1.9.1-p378 and 1.9.2dev (2010-02-26 trunk 1971).  Calling
Kernel.rand immediately after forking fixes the issue, but
is suboptimal.

Attach is a proposed fix to rb_reset_random_seed() to reinitialize the random
seed after resetting.

$ cat shuffle.rb
pid = fork do
  (1..10).to_a.shuffle
end
p Process.waitpid2(pid)

$ ~/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby shuffle.rb
shuffle.rb:2: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [x86_64-linux]

-- control frame ----------
c:0007 p:---- s:0017 b:0017 l:000016 d:000016 CFUNC  :shuffle
c:0006 p:0018 s:0014 b:0014 l:000598 d:000013 BLOCK  shuffle.rb:2
c:0005 p:---- s:0012 b:0012 l:000011 d:000011 FINISH
c:0004 p:---- s:0010 b:0010 l:000009 d:000009 CFUNC  :fork
c:0003 p:0009 s:0007 b:0007 l:000598 d:000260 EVAL   shuffle.rb:1
c:0002 p:---- s:0004 b:0004 l:000003 d:000003 FINISH
c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:000598 d:000598 TOP   
---------------------------
-- Ruby level backtrace information-----------------------------------------
shuffle.rb:2:in `shuffle'
shuffle.rb:2:in `block in <main>'
shuffle.rb:1:in `fork'
shuffle.rb:1:in `<main>'

-- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------
0x4eaefb /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(rb_vm_bugreport+0x3b) [0x4eaefb]
0x51975e /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x51975e]
0x5198c1 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(rb_bug+0xb1) [0x5198c1]
0x49526f /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x49526f]
0x2b18ec32ba80 /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x2b18ec32ba80]
0x4687ba /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4687ba]
0x468986 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x468986]
0x4faef6 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4faef6]
0x4faf61 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4faf61]
0x4d8970 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4d8970]
0x4e6a00 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4e6a00]
0x4dba34 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4dba34]
0x4e0beb /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4e0beb]
0x4e88a6 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(rb_yield+0x926) [0x4e88a6]
0x418a39 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(rb_protect+0xd9) [0x418a39]
0x465b50 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x465b50]
0x4d8970 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4d8970]
0x4e6a00 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4e6a00]
0x4dba34 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4dba34]
0x4e0beb /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x4e0beb]
0x4e0db9 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(rb_iseq_eval_main+0xa9) [0x4e0db9]
0x41951c /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(ruby_exec_node+0xac) [0x41951c]
0x41ab13 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(ruby_run_node+0x33) [0x41ab13]
0x417f7d /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby(main+0x4d) [0x417f7d]
0x2b18ece201a6 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x2b18ece201a6]
0x417e69 /home/ew/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby [0x417e69]

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[24566, #<Process::Status: pid 24566 SIGIOT (signal 6) (core dumped)>]


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