Large memory usage by gdb

[Alex Lindsay]

Yes, I've also seen all those errors. I wrote them off to errors in the 
python library but maybe I should have looked more closely

On 08/07/2017 02:53 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 10:14 +0100, Yao Qi wrote:
>
>> leaks are bugs, and we should fix them.  I can find these leaks in
>> valgrind too,
> When running valgrind + gdb on a small program, I also get
> many errors like the below (GDB 8.0, Debian 8).
>
> Do you also see that ?
>
>
> Philippe
>
> ==9360== Invalid read of size 4
> ==9360==    at 0x58AD9F3: PyObject_Free (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E7F: gdb_Py_DECREF (python-internal.h:194)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E7F: decref (py-ref.h:36)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E7F: ~ref_ptr (gdb_ref_ptr.h:91)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E7F: unicode_to_encoded_string(_object*, char const*) (py-utils.c:74)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5F9C: python_string_to_host_string(_object*) (py-utils.c:158)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BBDDD: get_doc_string(_object*, _object*) (py-param.c:314)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BC11D: parmpy_init(_object*, _object*, _object*) (py-param.c:707)
> ==9360==    by 0x580AD5B: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5899BE2: PyObject_Call (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x58CD441: PyEval_EvalFrameEx (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x594218F: PyEval_EvalCodeEx (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x589132B: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5899BE2: PyObject_Call (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x58DC0E4: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==  Address 0x6f0c020 is 1,280 bytes inside a block of size 3,133 free'd
> ==9360==    at 0x4C29B8A: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:785)
> ==9360==    by 0x5862625: _PyString_Resize (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x57E40AC: PyUnicodeUCS4_EncodeUTF8 (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5848A98: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5899BE2: PyObject_Call (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x59416E6: PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5906C4D: PyCodec_Encode (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x57E4AB4: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsEncodedString (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E44: unicode_to_encoded_string(_object*, char const*) (py-utils.c:74)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5F9C: python_string_to_host_string(_object*) (py-utils.c:158)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BBDDD: get_doc_string(_object*, _object*) (py-param.c:314)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BC11D: parmpy_init(_object*, _object*, _object*) (py-param.c:707)
> ==9360==  Block was alloc'd at
> ==9360==    at 0x4C27BF5: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
> ==9360==    by 0x5864249: PyString_FromStringAndSize (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x57E41C6: PyUnicodeUCS4_EncodeUTF8 (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5848A98: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5899BE2: PyObject_Call (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x59416E6: PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x5906C4D: PyCodec_Encode (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x57E4AB4: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsEncodedString (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5E44: unicode_to_encoded_string(_object*, char const*) (py-utils.c:74)
> ==9360==    by 0x4C5F9C: python_string_to_host_string(_object*) (py-utils.c:158)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BBDDD: get_doc_string(_object*, _object*) (py-param.c:314)
> ==9360==    by 0x4BC11D: parmpy_init(_object*, _object*, _object*) (py-param.c:707)
>
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