Bug 16289 - WebKit loses data stored on "reachable" binding objects during garbage collection
Summary: WebKit loses data stored on "reachable" binding objects during garbage collec...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebCore JavaScript (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Major
Assignee: Maciej Stachowiak
URL:
Keywords: HasReduction, InRadar
: 17076 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: Acid3
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Reported: 2007-12-04 07:18 PST by Sjoerd Mulder
Modified: 2008-05-07 13:55 PDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Testcase (2.49 KB, application/force-download)
2007-12-04 07:18 PST, Sjoerd Mulder
no flags Details
reduced test case (906 bytes, text/html)
2007-12-05 06:29 PST, Alexey Proskuryakov
no flags Details
patch v1 (8.75 KB, patch)
2008-03-04 22:41 PST, Maciej Stachowiak
sam: review+
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Description Sjoerd Mulder 2007-12-04 07:18:20 PST
When defining a function for for example namespace resolving it's handy to store this on the XML document Object. 

But webkit loses the function sometimes for strange reasons.

See testcase, it should just continue counting and counting, this does work in Firefox and Opera
Comment 1 Sjoerd Mulder 2007-12-04 07:18:46 PST
Created attachment 17701 [details]
Testcase
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-12-05 06:09:53 PST
Confirmed with r28024. This can be reproduced reliably by forcing garbage collection.
Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-12-05 06:29:39 PST
Created attachment 17718 [details]
reduced test case
Comment 4 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-12-05 06:31:25 PST
Not a regression from Safari 2.
Comment 5 Sjoerd Mulder 2007-12-06 08:20:14 PST
It also looses the 'documentElement' property
Comment 6 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-12-06 08:43:42 PST
<rdar://problem/5633005>
Comment 7 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-01-30 01:08:29 PST
*** Bug 17076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-01-30 01:10:05 PST
Acid3 itself has a larger and more advanced test case that will need to be verified when fixing this.
Comment 9 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-03-04 13:41:57 PST
This example does:
- get a dom object (domObjectA)
- get a dom object reachable from that dom object, using dom methods (domObjectB)
- set custom data on domObjectB
- store domObjectA in a local variable
- force a GC
- access domObjectB through the dom methods off of domObjectA
- notice that domObjectB is a fresh binding object, thus has no custom data

When marking, we don't follow builtin dom methods and mark the related binding objects.

One fix would be to mark all DOM objects held in the DOM cache which have custom data set on them.  We would need some way to purge the DOM cache when the page it torn down (but we might do that already).

I wonder how we keep custom prototypes alive... maybe we walk the prototype chain of any object when marking.
Comment 10 Maciej Stachowiak 2008-03-04 22:38:21 PST
This issue isn't quite the same as Acid3 tests 26 and 27, but I have a fix that addresses both. (Acid3 doesn't rely on custom properties on the node).
Comment 11 Maciej Stachowiak 2008-03-04 22:41:49 PST
Created attachment 19543 [details]
patch v1
Comment 12 Sam Weinig 2008-03-04 22:53:47 PST
Comment on attachment 19543 [details]
patch v1

r=me.  Though you could use some braces for outer if-statements as is now our style.

90!!!
Comment 13 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2008-05-07 13:55:45 PDT
Landed in r30790.

<http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/30790>