From nils.goroll at uplex.de  Thu Nov 12 16:34:44 2026
From: nils.goroll at uplex.de (Nils Goroll)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:34:44 +0100
Subject: Fun with __int128
Message-ID: <c7cafbb6-d0db-4c77-8ddd-5dffefd1e900@uplex.de>

Just dropping this because I find it interesting: I am playing with __int128 as 
a sanity check for the changes for #4646, and I get interesting effects with a 
simple explanation.

Don't worry, I will not use any __int128 for real.

configure:3485: clang-19 --version >&5
Debian clang version 19.1.7 (3~deb12u1)

got this:

#6  0x000055d69d28ca6e in child_signal_handler (s=11, si=0x7fde6f5cc5b0, 
c=0x7fde6f5cc480) at cache/cache_main.c:344
#7  <signal handler called>
#8  0x000055d69d2e5c15 in v1f_chunked_pull (vc=0x7fde4007db00, 
vfe=0x7fde4007dd08, ptr=0x7fde28000da0, lp=0x7fde6d288110)
     at http1/cache_http1_vfp.c:703
#9  0x000055d69d279264 in VFP_Suck (vc=0x7fde4007db00, p=0x7fde28000da0, 
lp=0x7fde6d288110) at cache/cache_fetch_proc.c:188

(gdb) fr 8
#8  0x000055d69d2e5c15 in v1f_chunked_pull (vc=0x7fde4007db00, 
vfe=0x7fde4007dd08, ptr=0x7fde28000da0, lp=0x7fde6d288110)
     at http1/cache_http1_vfp.c:703
703		if (vfe->priv2 == -1) {

(gdb) ptype vfe->priv2
type = __int128

So how can this instruction cause a segfault?

The reason: Wrong alignment, because our workspace alignment is 8 bytes.

(gdb) p (uintptr_t)&vfe->priv2 % 16
$4 = 8

The instruction is Move Aligned Packed Single Precision Floating-Point Values:

=> 0x000055dc810eac15 <+485>: movaps 0x20(%rax),%xmm0

With alignment hacked up to 16 bytes, this goes away:

diff --git a/bin/vinyld/cache/cache_fetch_proc.c 
b/bin/vinyld/cache/cache_fetch_proc.c
index 6319fb78e..46ce6d936 100644
--- a/bin/vinyld/cache/cache_fetch_proc.c
+++ b/bin/vinyld/cache/cache_fetch_proc.c
@@ -217,11 +217,12 @@ VFP_Push(struct vfp_ctx *vc, const struct vfp *vfp)
         CHECK_OBJ_NOTNULL(vc, VFP_CTX_MAGIC);
         CHECK_OBJ_NOTNULL(vc->resp, HTTP_MAGIC);

-       vfe = WS_Alloc(vc->resp->ws, sizeof *vfe);
+       vfe = WS_Alloc(vc->resp->ws, sizeof *vfe + 8);
         if (vfe == NULL) {
                 (void)VFP_Error(vc, "Workspace overflow");
                 return (NULL);
         }
+       vfe = (void *)(((uintptr_t)vfe + 8) & ~0xf);

         INIT_OBJ(vfe, VFP_ENTRY_MAGIC);
         vfe->vfp = vfp;

Same thing elsewhere with htc

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