Re: How to debug a segmentation fault?

>> I'm encountering a SIGSEGV in PHP-FPM on PHP 7.4.2 in a Symfony app. The >> bug seems to happen during the rendering of a Twig template; this makes it >> hard for me to pinpoint the code that triggers the segfault. > > I'm not sure if I could gather helpful enough info about the issue, but > anyway I filed a bug here: > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79194 >> gdb output for the segfault: (only showing the first 10 entries, it goes on and on for more >> than 20000 entries—there may be many more, I gave up after that) > #0 0x00007f7ea5fdc6d1 in bf_zend_execute () from /usr/lib64/php/modules/blackfire.so > #1 0x0000560bec0b20c0 in ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_RETVAL_USED_HANDLER () at > /usr/src/debug/php-7.4.2-1.fc31.remi.x86_64/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:1714 > #2 execute_ex (ex=0x7f7e99d6b2c0) at > /usr/src/debug/php-7.4.2-1.fc31.remi.x86_64/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:53821 > #3 0x00007f7ea5fdc6f8 in bf_zend_execute () from /usr/lib64/php/modules/blackfire.so > #4 0x0000560bec0b20c0 in ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_RETVAL_USED_HANDLER () at > /usr/src/debug/php-7.4.2-1.fc31.remi.x86_64/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:1714 > #5 execute_ex (ex=0x7f7e99d6b2c0) at > /usr/src/debug/php-7.4.2-1.fc31.remi.x86_64/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:53821 The symptoms sounds like you have a global function (each call handled in ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_RETVAL_USED_HANDLER) that's recursively calling itself, infinitely. The stack trace doesn't say which. When blackfire is used, it seems to use C's call stack, which leads to a stack overflow. When blackfire is used, the C PHP engine manages a different stack and doesn't recurse, so it doesn't have a stack overflow, and the memory leak would be slower. Infinite recursion leading to a segfault is **a known bug with no plans to be fixed that I know of,** which I've encountered many times. You may also want to try running the same code with xdebug - Xdebug will throw/log an error if you recurse more than max_nesting_level(defaults to 100). https://xdebug.org/docs/basic That will give you the php function that calls itself. If you can reproduce the issue consistently, you may also want to look into https://github.com/adsr/phpspy (It has a top-like mode:)