Ensure pointer is 8-byte aligned in stack_alloc::alloc #3014
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Summary
This was originally found using UBSAN on the
csr_matrix_times_vector
function: stan-dev/rstan#1111The issue there was that that function places
u
, which isstd::vector<int>
, in our memory arena. Ifu
contained an odd number of elements (e.g., 3 in the above issue), this resulted in a call toalloc
with alen
of12
.The next call to
alloc
would then return a pointer which was not 8-byte aligned, which is undefined behavior. On x86 this is relatively benign, but on other platforms this could be either very slow or cause processor exceptions.Tests
I have updated
stack_alloc_test
Side Effects
This will add a few unused bytes (always less than 8) to allocations of types that
sizeof(T) % 8 !=0
. Additionally, a bit of extra math is needed in thealloc
function, but @SteveBronder and I checked that this gets compiled down to just aand
,sub
, andcmov
Release notes
Fixed the stack_allocator being able to return non-8-byte aligned pointers
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the basic tests are passing
./runTests.py test/unit
)make test-headers
)make test-math-dependencies
)make doxygen
)make cpplint
)the code is written in idiomatic C++ and changes are documented in the doxygen
the new changes are tested