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Revision as of 11:33, 7 June 2006

What is it?

By June 2006, there may occur tasks in IssueZilla whose summary begins with "Valgrind ".

These tasks are generated by memory violation messages of Valgrind, or to be more specific: Valgrind's memcheck tool.

Valgrind does only runtime tests, so the number of results depends on executing the Office in as many different ways as possible. To do that, the tests of the automated GUI testing are run under Valgrind.

These tasks are memory violation errors and as such potential GPFs.

Target and Priority

The severity is inbetween P2 and P3. Normally these tasks should be fixed to the next available release.

Owner

The tasks are generated automaticly, the owners are deducted from the library name where the issue occurred. This means, owners might be inaccurate sometimes, please then forward the task to the appropriate owner.

How to Read the Task Text

The task text starts with

Error Type:   like "Invalid read"
Error Text:   like "Invalid read of size 16"

than follows the call stack of the function which violated the memory. The topmost frame being the place where the error happened.

Sometimes there follows a line

ADDR:

that gives the address where memory was violated, this may be followed by the call stack where this memory was allocated (if it was allocated at all).

At the bottom is a list of the automatic GUI tests where this error occured (find those tests in the list at http://qa.openoffice.org/qatesttool/all_tests_ooo203.html)

To debug this, compile the library of the first stack frame with debug. Then you can either

  • run the Office under the test tool and let run one of the mentioned tests, set a breakpoint into the first stack frame and try to find the memory violation,
  • run the Office under Valgrind and try do anything to enter the given stack frame.

Verifying

These bugs can normally not be seen by QA, so they should be verified by developer review. If the task's fix is integrated into a milestone and after that would occur again in a Valgrind run, this would be noticed and then the task be reopened again.

External Tasks

At the beginning, there may occur a few tasks which are known, but cannot be fixed, because it is code in 3rd party libraries (like X11). Those tasks can be set to RESOLVED/INVALID (as these are no OpenOffice.org bugs). Future Valgrind runs will be modified, so these issues will not be filed again.

Links and Contact

Valgrind: http://www.valgrind.org/

Automatic GUI Tests: http://qa.openoffice.org/qatesttool/

Contact (regarding Valgrind tasks): np AT_NOSPAM openoffice DOT_NOSPAM org

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