Fix #11141 broken sp corrector

src/libexpr/eval-gc.cc

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ void fixupBoehmStackPointer(void ** sp_ptr, void * _pthread_id)
     // NOTE: We assume the stack grows down, as it does on all architectures we support.
     //       Architectures that grow the stack up are rare.
     if (sp >= osStackBase || sp < osStackLow) { // lo is outside the os stack
-        sp = osStackBase;
+        sp = osStackLow;
     }
 }
 

tests/functional/lang-gc.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# shellcheck shell=bash
+
+# Regression tests for the evaluator
+# These are not in lang.sh because they generally only need to run in CI,
+# whereas lang.sh is often run locally during development
+
+
+source common.sh
+
+set -o pipefail
+
+# Regression test for #11141. The stack pointer corrector assigned the base
+# instead of the top (which resides at the low end of the stack). Sounds confusing?
+# Stacks grow downwards, so that's why this mistake happened.
+# My manual testing did not uncover this, because it didn't rely on the stack enough.
+# https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11141
+test_issue_11141() {
+  mkdir -p "$TEST_ROOT/issue-11141/src"
+  cp lang-gc/issue-11141-gc-coroutine-test.nix "$TEST_ROOT/issue-11141/"
+  (
+    set +x;
+    n=10
+    echo "populating $TEST_ROOT/issue-11141/src with $((n*100)) files..."
+    for i in $(seq 0 $n); do
+      touch "$TEST_ROOT/issue-11141/src/file-$i"{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
+    done
+  )
+
+  GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=$((1024 * 1024)) \
+  NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 \
+  nix eval -vvv\
+    -f "$TEST_ROOT/issue-11141/issue-11141-gc-coroutine-test.nix"
+}
+test_issue_11141

tests/functional/lang-gc/issue-11141-gc-coroutine-test.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+
+# Run:
+# GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=$[1024 * 1024] NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 nix eval -f gc-coroutine-test.nix  -vvvv
+
+let
+  inherit (builtins)
+    foldl'
+    isList
+    ;
+
+  # Generate a tree of numbers, n deep, such that the numbers add up to (1 + salt) * 10^n.
+  # The salting makes the numbers all different, increasing the likelihood of catching
+  # any memory corruptions that might be caused by the GC or otherwise.
+  garbage = salt: n:
+    if n == 0
+    then [(1 + salt)]
+    else [
+      (garbage (10 * salt + 1) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt - 1) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt + 2) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt - 2) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt + 3) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt - 3) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt + 4) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt - 4) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt + 5) (n - 1))
+      (garbage (10 * salt - 5) (n - 1))
+    ];
+
+  pow = base: n:
+    if n == 0
+    then 1
+    else base * (pow base (n - 1));
+
+  sumNestedLists = l:
+    if isList l
+    then foldl' (a: b: a + sumNestedLists b) 0 l
+    else l;
+
+in
+  assert sumNestedLists (garbage 0 3) == pow 10 3;
+  assert sumNestedLists (garbage 0 6) == pow 10 6;
+  builtins.foldl'
+    (a: b:
+      assert
+        "${
+          builtins.path {
+            path = ./src;
+            filter = path: type:
+              # We're not doing common subexpression elimination, so this reallocates
+              # the fairly big tree over and over, producing a lot of garbage during
+              # source filtering, whose filter runs in a coroutine.
+              assert sumNestedLists (garbage 0 3) == pow 10 3;
+              true;
+          }
+        }"
+          == "${./src}";
+
+      # These asserts don't seem necessary, as the lambda value get corrupted first
+      assert a.okay;
+      assert b.okay;
+      { okay = true; }
+    )
+    { okay = true; }
+    [ { okay = true; } { okay = true; } { okay = true; } ]

tests/functional/local.mk

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ nix_tests = \
   remote-store.sh \
   legacy-ssh-store.sh \
   lang.sh \
+  lang-gc.sh \
   characterisation-test-infra.sh \
   experimental-features.sh \
   fetchMercurial.sh \