pthread_join leads to segmentation fault. why? - c

Question

This code receives a input file with 10 filenames, stores them into an 2d array and creates 10+1 threads: a requester and 10 converters. This is only a skeleton, so my threads only print their id, thei're not accessing any global or shared variable or something that requires a mutex. So, what should I do to avoid a segmentation fault here?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <semaphore.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define READ_BUFFER_LEN 16
//#define MAX_LENGTH 128
enum {
MAX_LENGTH = 512
};
typedef struct FileNameArray {
size_t nfiles; /* Number of file names allocated and in use */
size_t maxfiles; /* Number of entries allocated in array */
char **files; /* Array of file names */
} FileNameArray;
//GLOBAL vars
int num_images, *threads_ids /*threads ids*/;
pthread_t *threads;
void deallocate2D(FileNameArray *names) {
size_t i;
for (i = 0; i < names->nfiles; i++)
free(names->files[i]);
free(names->files);
names->nfiles = 0;
names->files = 0;
names->maxfiles = 0;
}
int readInputFile(FILE *fp, FileNameArray *names) {
num_images = names->nfiles;
int max_lines = names->maxfiles;
char **file_names = names->files;
char line[MAX_LENGTH];
char **final_filenames, **array;
while (fgets(line, sizeof line, fp) != NULL) {
if (line[0] != '\n') {
/* Remove newline from end of file name */
char *nl = strchr(line, '\n');
if (nl != 0)
*nl = '\0';
if (num_images >= max_lines) {
max_lines += 100;
array = realloc(file_names, max_lines * sizeof (char*));
if (array == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error reallocating space for 2d array: %s\n",
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
names->maxfiles = max_lines;
names->files = array;
file_names = array;
}
if ((file_names[num_images] = malloc(strlen(line) + 1)) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error allocating space for 2d array: %s\n",
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
names->nfiles++;
strcpy(file_names[num_images], line);
printf("name of file %d is: %s \n", num_images, file_names[num_images]);
num_images++;
}
}
printf("Num_lines: %d\n", num_images);
//realloc to number of lines in the file, to avoid wasting memory
if ((final_filenames = realloc(file_names, num_images * sizeof (char*))) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error reallocating space for 2d array: %s\n",
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
names->maxfiles = num_images;
names->files = final_filenames;
return 0;
}
void* requester(void* arg) {
printf("This is the requester thread\n");
//sleep(1);
pthread_exit(NULL);
return NULL;
}
void* converter(void *id) {
int my_id = *((int*) id);
printf("Thread's id is: %d\n", my_id);
pthread_exit(NULL);
return NULL;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
FileNameArray names = {0, 0, 0};
int i, rc;
pthread_attr_t attr;
//check parameters
if (argc < 4) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s input_filename.ppm charWidth charHeight\n",
argv[0]);
return -1;
}
printf("Opening input file [%s]\n", argv[1]);
FILE *fpin = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (fpin == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not open input file %s (%s)\n",
argv[1], strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
if ((names.files = malloc(10 * sizeof (char*))) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error allocating initial space for 2d array: %s\n",
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
names.maxfiles = 10;
if (readInputFile(fpin, &names) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error reading image filenames from input\n");
return -1;
}
threads = (pthread_t*) malloc(num_images + 1 * sizeof (pthread_t));
threads_ids = (int*) malloc(num_images + 1 * sizeof (int));
/* Initialize and set thread detached attribute */
pthread_attr_init(&attr);
pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE);
//creates requester thread, the 1st one on the list
pthread_create(&threads[0], &attr, requester, &threads_ids[0]);
threads_ids[0] = 0;
//creates so many converter threads as the number of images to convert
for (i = 1; i < num_images + 1; i++) {
threads_ids[i] = i;
rc = pthread_create(&threads[i], &attr, converter, &threads_ids[i]);
if (rc) {
printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
exit(-1);
}
}
/* Free attribute and wait for the other threads */
pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
for (i = 0; i < num_images + 1; i++) {
printf("Waiting for thread nr %d\n", i);
rc = pthread_join(threads[i], NULL);
if (rc) {
printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_join() is %d\n", rc);
exit(-1);
}
}
fclose(fpin);
free(threads);
free(threads_ids);
printf("###########\n");
deallocate2D(&names);
printf("Done!\n");
return 0;
}
This is one of the possible ouputs:
Num_lines: 10
This is the requester thread
Thread's id is: 1
Thread's id is: 2
Thread's id is: 3
Thread's id is: 5
Thread's id is: 4
Thread's id is: 6
Thread's id is: 7
Thread's id is: 8
Thread's id is: 9
Waiting for thread nr 0
Thread's id is: 10
Segmentation fault
and this is the result of gdb:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x001bfea9 in *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x804c278) at malloc.c:3724
3724 malloc.c: No such file or directory.
in malloc.c
(gdb) where
#0 0x001bfea9 in *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x804c278) at malloc.c:3724
#1 0x00120802 in *__GI__dl_deallocate_tls (tcb=<value optimized out>,
dealloc_tcb=112) at dl-tls.c:487
#2 0x00133748 in __free_stacks (limit=41943040) at allocatestack.c:274
#3 0x00133849 in queue_stack (pd=0xb5fd9b70) at allocatestack.c:302
#4 __deallocate_stack (pd=0xb5fd9b70) at allocatestack.c:740
#5 0x00134b37 in pthread_join (threadid=3053296496, thread_return=0x0)
at pthread_join.c:110
#6 0x0804955c in main (argc=4, argv=0xbffff4a4) at main.c:261

Answer 1

threads = (pthread_t*) malloc(num_images + 1 * sizeof (pthread_t));
threads_ids = (int*) malloc(num_images + 1 * sizeof (int));
Certainly you must have intended to write
threads = malloc((num_images + 1) * sizeof (pthread_t));
threads_ids = malloc((num_images + 1) * sizeof (int));
or
threads = calloc(num_images + 1, sizeof (pthread_t));
threads_ids = calloc(num_images + 1, sizeof (int));
instead?