629982 - Constant crashes (possibly) due to recent nightly build changes [@ nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI()]

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, critical)

Description

[Ron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110129 Firefox/4.0b11pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110129 Firefox/4.0b11pre

Sorry, but I have to be real fast in writing this bug as Minefield has already crashed during one attempt of trying to post this issue.
Unfortunately, I can't give many details, but the following crash reports may help:
Report ID
        Date Submitted
      
    
    
    bp-89345f2e-37cf-4269-b78f-b2c73211012930/01/201108:37bp-3c9f343f-5958-4652-8a90-63239211012930/01/201108:29bp-749dde1e-3f1c-4107-9fee-cfc8f211012930/01/201108:21bp-73f1be98-4cc6-42eb-9ea2-06c02211012930/01/201101:09bp-2119a058-bc65-457e-8a87-13dac211012930/01/201100:57bp-be3797b0-9507-4096-9b7b-41951211012930/01/201100:51bp-24cdb9b2-e6e0-40f0-b978-045a7211012930/01/201100:42bp-79e7684c-9e5f-4cd7-bde9-1c417211012829/01/201101:11bp-de4bb29e-f361-4314-993d-88bfa211012222/01/201119:39bp-43d880d1-702b-4d21-a629-ceb83211012222/01/201119:338a30a791-3d05-4f23-a9b0-74c187c2dd9b22/01/201119:27bp-5df64f82-68bf-4dd1-b35f-5ce88211012222/01/201119:21

I apologize for the disarray of the report, I just want to make sure it's posted before another crash happens.

Feel free to contact me for further details.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ron]

Attachment: Crash Reports

The whole crash reports file. Managed to save it before (yet another) crash. Using Chrome to upload it :-/

Comment 2

[timeless]

Comment on attachment 508211 [details]
Crash Reports

bp-37567f44-b90a-4d02-8952-273472110130	30/01/2011	10:36
bp-cf913bcb-48b8-4ee0-8714-875a32110130	30/01/2011	10:29
bp-2f4c6a31-b259-40a3-b5e8-a5e8d2110129	30/01/2011	08:49
bp-89345f2e-37cf-4269-b78f-b2c732110129	30/01/2011	08:37
bp-3c9f343f-5958-4652-8a90-632392110129	30/01/2011	08:29
bp-749dde1e-3f1c-4107-9fee-cfc8f2110129	30/01/2011	08:21
bp-73f1be98-4cc6-42eb-9ea2-06c022110129	30/01/2011	01:09
bp-2119a058-bc65-457e-8a87-13dac2110129	30/01/2011	00:57
bp-be3797b0-9507-4096-9b7b-419512110129	30/01/2011	00:51
bp-24cdb9b2-e6e0-40f0-b978-045a72110129	30/01/2011	00:42
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Comment 3

[timeless]

Signature	nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI()
UUID	37567f44-b90a-4d02-8952-273472110130
Time 	2011-01-30 00:36:29.925575
Uptime	392
Last Crash	486 seconds (8.1 minutes) before submission
Install Age	35607 seconds (9.9 hours) since version was first installed.
Product	Firefox
Version	4.0b11pre
Crash Reason	EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW

        * Bug 561874 RESOLVED FIXED [HTML5] 4MB text file crashes Minefield when HTML5 is enabled [@ nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI() ]

Crashing Thread
Frame 	Module 	Signature 	Source
0 	xul.dll 	nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI 	content/base/src/nsGenericElement.cpp:3416
1024 	xul.dll 	nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI 	content/base/src/nsGenericElement.cpp:3416

Extension 	Extension Id 	Version 	Current?
Add-on Compatibility Reporter 	[e-mail] 	0.7 	current
	[e-mail] 	0.4.1 	
	[e-mail] 	1.3.4 	
LastPass Password Manager 	[e-mail] 	1.70.0 	current
TabLang 	[e-mail] 	0.3.2 	current
Test Pilot 	[e-mail] 	1.0.3 	current
ChatZilla 	{59c81df5-4b7a-477b-912d-4e0fdf64e5f2} 	0.9.86 	current
	{5e2f6fce-9590-49c3-946d-6356e68e961f} 	0.0.13 	
	SkipScreen@SkipScreen 	0.5.15bs 	
Siphon - Add-on Synchronizer [beta] 	[e-mail] 	0.9.0 	current
ViewMarks 	{7443739c-bff6-4af0-aea5-7ed29006966c} 	0.9.5 	current
	[e-mail] 	1.0 	
	[e-mail] 	0.7.3 	
Adblock Plus 	{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d} 	1.3.3 	current
Greasemonkey 	{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781} 	0.9.1 	current
	{46551EC9-40F0-4e47-8E18-8E5CF550CFB8} 	1.1 	
Google Redesigned 	{cc85cd4e-5a5b-4eda-a25c-bdaffa93b406} 	0.6 	current
	{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} 	4.0b11pre 	
	[e-mail] 	4 	
	[e-mail] 	2 	
	[e-mail] 	4 	
	[e-mail] 	3 	

please try:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/safe%20mode

if that avoids the problem, then please try to figure out which extension is causing the problem (enable only half of your extensions / if that set is ok, pick the other half, if it isn't, pick half of the set)

Comment 4

[Ron]

Thanks for the reply and suggestion.
I had a hunch regarding which extension may be the culprit, and I was right. It's Greasemonkey. I assume it's not the extension that's messing up but rather one or more of the scripts installed with it, but I still need to check exactly which (have a hunch on this one as well).
One thing I can say is that Firefox runs *a lot* faster with Greasemonkey disabled.
I'm not sure whether you'd want me to keep you posted on this one as it is relatively unrelated to FF specifically. Please let me know if you do.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

This doesn't look like a parser bug.  

The stacks show very deep recursion, I wonder why that started happening recently.

Ron, if you can reproduce this reliably enough, can you figure out a nightly regression range?

We should consider changing this code to not be recursive too, but I think figuring out why the crashes have suddenly appeared is what this bug should focus on.

Comment 6

[Ron]

Boris, could you please explain what you mean by 'a nightly regression range'? I don't think it should be that difficult to reproduce the problem.

Another thing you should consider is that this is unrelated to a nightly build change, but rather it could be one of the greasemonkey scripts that may have auto-updated itself. I don't know if I can check on that either.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

Ron, a "nightly regression range" is just the pair of nightly builds before and after the problem appeared.  That narrows down it down to a one-day set of checkins, after which it's often possible to tell what caused the problem.

That said, I took a closer look at the links in comment 2, and it looks like you've been getting this crash for a good long while (e.g. the August 31, 2010 crashes are the same issue).  So looking for a nightly regression range is not really worth it; there might not be one.

Jonas, what do you think of making this non-recursive?

Comment 8

[Ron]

Boris,
Generally speaking recursion should be avoided if in situations like this, though I'm not sure that it won't lead to an endless loop and eventually reach the same result. If it's a funky userscript that does it, then there isn't much hope there.
As for the crash reports links, while you are correct that I've encountered similar problems in the past, I can definitely say that it's been a very long time since I had as frequent crashes as I do in this instance.
If you want me to try and do the regression range, or specifically find the specific script that causes this issue, please let me know.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

If you can find the relevant script, that would be great!

Comment 10

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I'll take a look at this. If this is just creating a really deep tree then it might be hard to fix properly. If it's creating a cyclic DOM then something's really really wrong.

Comment 11

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

So I looked at the minidump and it appears that what's happening here is simply a very deem DOM tree. There was no sign of the "this" pointed appearing multiple times on the stack.

We probably should add some sort of protection against overly deep DOM trees, though. 

nsGenericElement::GetBaseURI is currently the top #214 crasher. It's quite possible that this signature is particularly common for overly deep DOM trees. Each frame uses 196 bytes on the stack which is respectable, and during the recursion phase we never call out to another function, and thus risk running out of stack space there, which would spread crashes over multiple signatures.

Don't know if it's worth putting deep-DOM-protection into FF4, especially since it risks breaking things if we choose a too shallow limit. But at the very least we can convert the function to be non-recursive.

Comment 12

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Ron: Please do look for the responsible script. It's very likely that even if we fix GetBaseURI to not be recursive, that you'll just run into some other recursive algorithm that will crash you. We have lots of them in gecko.

Comment 13

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Attachment: Debugging notes.

Just some notes I collected while debugging. For posterity.

Comment 14

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

> Don't know if it's worth putting deep-DOM-protection into FF4

Either you meant FF5, or it's not worth it.

Comment 15

[Ron]

Okay guys, please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
I still need to find the menacing script if I want to use greasemonkey's other userscripts.

Comment 16

[Ron]

Unfortunately, so far I haven't been  able to reproduce the problem.

Comment 17

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Attachment: Patch to make us not recurse

This patch will make us not recurse when calculating baseuris. It will hopefully help with crashes, but there's definitely a risk that we'll just move the crashes to some other signature in some other recursive tree-walking algorithm.

Comment 18

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 511276 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to make us not recurse

- In content/base/test/file_base_xbl.xml:

\ No newline at end of file

Add a newline.

r=jst

Comment 19

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Checked in

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/231109adff31

Ron: This may or may not help with the crashing. If you're still crashing, please attach a few new crash-ids