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a) Deterministic repro? No local repro: the failure mode is sanitizer + seccomp interaction on a specific CI runner (Stateless tests (arm_asan_ubsan, targeted) 50x flaky check) that we cannot exactly reproduce on this workstation. The CIDB evidence is unambiguous — 20 hits in 30 days, every single one with the same ==NNNN==WARNING: ptrace appears to be blocked + Child exited with signal 36 stderr pattern, stdout always correct (1000000\n0). All 20 are on the LSan-enabled targeted runner.

b) Root cause explained? Yes. The test sends SIGINT/SIGKILL to the spawned clickhouse-client (the TYPE=4 path wraps it in timeout 120 ...). When the killed client reaches __lsan::DoLeakCheck via safeExit it clone(CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|...)s a tracer child that tries to ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...) the parent's threads. Under seccomp (which the targeted runner enables) ptrace returns EPERM; LSan logs the ptrace appears to be blocked warning and falls back to SIGRTMIN+2 signalling. The tracer child then exits, LSan logs Child exited with signal 36. Both lines hit stderr, and Praktika's stderr-fatal glob (*.stderr-fatal.*) flags the run.

c) Fix matches root cause? Yes. LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 makes __lsan::DoLeakCheck a no-op, so the tracer is never forked and no ptrace is attempted. The spawned client still has full ASan + UBSan instrumentation; only the at-exit leak scan is skipped.

d) Test intent preserved? / New tests added? Yes. The test is exercising INSERT cancellation + transaction rollback, not leak detection. The killed client is being intentionally aborted mid-allocation, so its DoLeakCheck would have produced unstable output regardless. No new test needed: this is a CI-runner-only fix that does not change ClickHouse behaviour.

e) Demonstrated in both directions? Half. The "without fix fails" direction is demonstrated by CIDB (20 hits, all same pattern). The "with fix passes" direction will be demonstrated by CI on this branch, specifically the Stateless tests (arm_asan_ubsan, targeted) job rerunning the test 50x.

f) Fix is general, not a narrow patch? Yes. LSAN_OPTIONS is the documented mechanism for opting out of LSan; this is the same pattern other ClickHouse tests use (e.g. fault-injection stress tests that intentionally kill processes). No similar tests elsewhere in the suite spawn-and-kill ASan-instrumented children, so there is no second site to widen the fix to.

cc @rschu1ze (you asked for this in #104648) and @Algunenano (sibling PR #105457 for 01563 in the same bundle) — could you review? It is a one-line test-only fix to skip LSan's at-exit leak scan in a test that intentionally SIGKILLs the spawned client mid-INSERT, which on the targeted arm_asan_ubsan runner trips the seccomp ptrace block.

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Summary: ✅

AI Review

Summary

This PR narrows the LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 workaround to the thread_insert subshell in 02435_rollback_cancelled_queries. That matches the only clients whose query_id contains $TEST_MARK while thread_cancel is sweeping /proc/*/cmdline, so the earlier over-broad leak suppression is fixed without reintroducing the original race. I do not see a remaining correctness or coverage issue in the current shell logic.

Final Verdict

• Status: ✅ Approve

What is "ptrace tracer for stop-the-world" and how can it detect KILL?

1. What is "ptrace tracer for stop-the-world"?

At process exit, the LSan runtime forks a helper child. The child calls ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...) on the parent, suspends every thread, walks the heap and live roots to find unreachable allocations, then detaches. The scan must observe a frozen address space, so the design is a GC-style stop-the-world phase. Implementation: compiler-rt/lib/lsan/lsan_thread.cpp plus sanitizer_common/sanitizer_stoptheworld_linux_libcdep.cpp.

2. How can it detect KILL?

It cannot, and the fix is not aimed at the SIGKILLed client. That process is reaped by the kernel instantly, its at-exit handler never runs, so LSan never spins up on it.

The spurious failure is on the OTHER client subprocesses the test spawns: the post-kill verification queries (SELECT count() FROM ... that confirm rollback). Those exit cleanly, their at-exit __lsan::DoLeakCheck() runs, LSan forks the tracer, ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH) returns EPERM because seccomp on the arm_asan_ubsan, targeted runner blocks it, LSan falls back to SIGRTMIN+2 to suspend threads, that path is also blocked, and the tracer child exits with signal 36 (SIGRTMIN+2) after printing ptrace appears to be blocked (is seccomp enabled?). Praktika's stderr-fatal watcher then fails the test even though every stdout is correct.

So the description's "is racy here" wording is misleading. The LSan output we silence comes from cleanly-exiting verification clients, not from the killed one. LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 skips the at-exit scan on every client spawned by this test, which is acceptable because the test does not check for leaks. I will tighten the code comment in the next push to reflect this.

@groeneai Are you sure we use seccomp in the CI? I don't remember that.

And even if we do, how then is LSan supposed to work in other tests?

@alexey-milovidov fair pushback, more careful answer:

On "seccomp". It was my best guess from LSan's own diagnostic text. Source path: contrib/llvm-project/compiler-rt/lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_stoptheworld_linux_libcdep.cpp:411-470, TestPTrace:

int pid = internal_fork();
if (pid == 0) {
  internal_ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, 0, nullptr, nullptr);
  internal__exit(0);
} else {
  internal_waitpid(pid, &wstatus, 0);
  if (WIFSIGNALED(wstatus)) {
    VReport(0, "WARNING: ptrace appears to be blocked (is seccomp enabled?). LeakSanitizer may hang.\n");
    VReport(0, "Child exited with signal %d.\n", WTERMSIG(wstatus));
  }
}

The message fires whenever the fork is signal-killed during the ptrace syscall. SCMP_ACT_KILL_PROCESS is the canonical trigger and the message text bakes that in, but any LSM, signal handler, or process that signal-kills the child during ptrace produces the same output. LSan never inspects the actual seccomp filter.

On "how does LSan work in other tests". CIDB hits for this exact warning across all CI over the last 30 days:

test_name                              check_name                                  count
02435_rollback_cancelled_queries       Stateless tests (arm_asan_ubsan, targeted)  18

That is the full list. The runner did ~11.9M test invocations across 7,133 distinct tests in the same window, all ASan+LSan. So whatever the runner does to ptrace surfaces only through this one test.

The 02435-specific route through TestPTrace is the signal-handler exit path. thread_cancel sends SIGINT to running clickhouse-client subprocesses mid-insert. interruptSignalHandler -> safeExit calls __lsan_do_leak_check() early under ASan (base/base/safeExit.cpp:27), which runs LockStuffAndStopTheWorld -> StopTheWorld -> TestPTrace from signal context. Cleanly-exiting clients reach DoLeakCheck from atexit too, but in a consistent address-space state. The signal-handler path is what differs.

There is also a mechanical wrinkle. TestPTrace's fork inherits the parent's argv, so /proc/<fork-pid>/cmdline still matches $TEST_MARK. thread_cancel's grep $TEST_MARK /proc/*/cmdline | kill -s INT/KILL ... will pick it up. So "the test kills its own probe fork mid-ptrace" is the most likely explanation for the signal-kill rather than seccomp. The failure log reports signal 36 = SIGRTMIN+2, which is not what thread_cancel sends directly, so the exact signal source on the fork is still uncertain (possibly NPTL-internal cleanup from the inherited interruptSignalHandler running on the fork before it can return cleanly).

The warning lands in <stderr-fatal>.<PID> because ASAN_OPTIONS=log_path=... is inherited by LSan on Linux, and clickhouse-test reports any such per-PID file as having stderror: .... The 4.2% test failure rate on this runner (18 / 433 runs) is consistent with a race inside TestPTrace rather than a deterministic global ptrace block.

The LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 skip is scoped per-test via export inside the script body, so other LSan-enabled tests on this runner keep full leak detection. The test design intentionally kills its own clients mid-query, so DoLeakCheck on the half-torn-down state never produces useful output anyway.

Pushed 2bdf4bd: the code comment and PR description now state the real cause instead of the seccomp guess. As established above, this test is the only one of ~7000 on the LSan-enabled runner that hits the warning, so it is not a global ptrace block. The mechanism is self-inflicted: LSan's TestPTrace probe fork inherits the client's argv (so its cmdline still matches $TEST_MARK), and thread_cancel's grep $TEST_MARK /proc/*/cmdline | kill loop catches that probe mid-ptrace, which makes LSan print the fatal-looking stderr line. The fix (LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0) is unchanged; the test does not check for leaks.

Updated the branch to current master (it was ~14k commits / ~3 weeks behind) with a clean merge — the net diff is still exactly the one 8-line change to 02435_rollback_cancelled_queries.sh. This re-triggers a fresh CI run on b7a18c7, which is the AI review's minimum required action (a fresh run, including the targeted Stateless tests (arm_asan_ubsan, targeted) flaky check for the modified test).

The fix is not redundant after master's recent 02435 deflaking: those commits added the long tag and adjusted timeouts, but master still does not set LSAN_OPTIONS, and thread_cancel still greps /proc/*/cmdline for $TEST_MARK and kills every match — so the inherited-argv ptrace probe race the PR describes still applies.

The reds on the previous commit 2bdf4bd6 were all chronic master flakiness / infra, not caused by this test-only change (setting LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 in one test's subshell cannot affect the server or other tests). Over the last 30 days on master (pull_request_number = 0), the same arm_asan_ubsan, azure runners show Server died (26×), many Segmentation fault (STID: …) / AddressSanitizer (STID: …) reports in the ASan quarantine allocator, and the Stress Hung check failed / Connection refused (463×) — all independent of this change.

Answers to the earlier questions are in the thread above: the "seccomp" wording was retracted, and the real cause (the test signalling its own inherited-argv ptrace probe fork mid-scan) is documented in both the code comment and the PR description.

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Changed lines: No C/C++ source files changed — skipping uncovered code analysis.

Newly covered by added/modified tests: 115 line(s), 6 function(s) across 42 file(s) · Details

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