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0016637ScribusInternalpublic2021-11-09 21:39
Reportermapreri Assigned Tojghali  
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version1.5.7 
Fixed in Version1.5.8.svn 
Summary0016637: Building with LTO causes segfaults on startup
DescriptionScribus is probably affected by this problem: https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order

Both CommonStrings::None and ColorListModel::m_NoneColor are static, and the latter uses the former for initialization. However, the order of initialization is not guaranteed.

When building with LTO, it looks like ColorListModel::m_NoneColor is initialized first, leading to the following, very confusing, segfault:

#0 0x00007fe7cd054c74 in std::__atomic_base<int>::load (__m=std::memory_order_relaxed, this=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/10/bits/atomic_base.h:426
0000001 QAtomicOps<int>::loadRelaxed<int> (_q_value=...) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/thread/qatomic_cxx11.h:239
0000002 QBasicAtomicInteger<int>::loadRelaxed (this=<optimized out>) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/thread/qbasicatomic.h:107
0000003 QtPrivate::RefCount::ref (this=<optimized out>) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qrefcount.h:55
0000004 QString::operator= (this=this@entry=0x559b454c7ae8 <ColorListModel::m_NoneColor+72>, other=...) at text/qstring.cpp:2408
0000005 0x0000559b44d43595 in ColorPixmapValue::ColorPixmapValue (this=<optimized out>, col=..., doc=<optimized out>, colName=..., this=<optimized out>, col=..., doc=<optimized out>, colName=...) at ./scribus/ui/colorlistmodel.cpp:31
0000006 0x0000559b4472b565 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) [clone .constprop.215] (__priority=65535, __initialize_p=1) at ./scribus/ui/colorlistmodel.cpp:34
0000007 0x0000559b4472de3b in _sub_I_65535_0.0 ()
0000008 0x0000559b45183f2d in __libc_csu_init ()
0000009 0x00007fe7cc9bd4f1 in __libc_start_main (main=0x559b44721ef0 <main(int, char**)>, argc=2, argv=0x7ffdc2984208, init=0x559b45183ee0 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffdc29841f8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:279
0000010 0x0000559b4472f8fe in _start ()


The site linked above has a couple of options on how to prevent the "static initialization ordering problem" (by effectively turning one of the object non-static), however it looks like it wouldn't be trivial to apply to this case, where CommonStrings is quite massive.
Steps To ReproduceThis was first reported in Ubuntu, where starting with 21.10 hirsute the toolchain defaults to building with LTO (-flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/+bug/1939213

Indeed, disabling LTO produces something that doesn't crash.
Additional InformationThanks to Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) for debugging and finding the likely issue, and Rik Mills for discovering the role of LTO.
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jghali

2021-09-20 19:46

administrator   ~0049251

I simply removed the static ColorPixmapValue m_NoneColor declaration. It was not used anywhere else anyway.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-09-19 20:36 mapreri New Issue
2021-09-19 21:09 jghali Severity minor => crash
2021-09-20 19:46 jghali Assigned To => jghali
2021-09-20 19:46 jghali Status new => resolved
2021-09-20 19:46 jghali Resolution open => fixed
2021-09-20 19:46 jghali Fixed in Version => 1.5.8.svn
2021-09-20 19:46 jghali Note Added: 0049251
2021-11-09 21:39 cbradney Status resolved => closed