[Valgrind-users] SIGPIPE when using "--track-origins"

[Juan N. <one...@gm...>]

Hello all;
I'm trying to analyze my application with the newly released Valgrind
v3.9.0; for the most part it works greatly, but there is some crash
happening when enabling the option "track-origins". This is a desktop
app compiled under GCC 4.6, which makes heavy use of Qt (4.8) + QML,
FreeType, OpenGL and several multimedia libraries, among others.

This is my valgrind command:
$ valgrind \
    --tool=memcheck \
    --verbose \
    --error-limit=no \
    --suppressions=myapp.supp \
    --log-file=valgrind-run.log \
    --smc-check=all-non-file \
    --leak-check=no \
    --track-origins=yes \
    ./myapp

The reason for "smc-check" is that Qt uses JIT code for its QtScript
and QML modules. "leak-check" is disables as a mean of limiting the
scope of the test, and "track-origins" is what makes the command to
fail (removing this option will correctly launch the app under
Valgrind).

This is what I get in the stdout:
    (myapp messages)
    Killed

This is what I get in valgrind-run.log:
    (Lots of "--3538-- Reading syms from <file>")
    (Lots of "--3538-- REDIR: <some address> <some symbol>)
    ==3538== Process terminating with default action of signal 13 (SIGPIPE)
    ==3538==    at 0x74FECCD: ??? (syscall-template.S:82)
    ==3538==    by 0xD9B4D0E: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0)
    ==3538==    by 0xD9B9BD7: _IceWrite (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0)
    ==3538==    by 0xD9B9CC3: IceFlush (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0)
    ==3538==    by 0x654FB60: ??? (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4)
    ==3538==    by 0x6550698: ??? (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4)
    ==3538==    by 0x6563ADA: ??? (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4)
    ==3538==    by 0x6564618: ??? (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.4)
    ==3538==    by 0xD7A9DFE: _SmcProcessMessage (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6.0.1)
    ==3538==    by 0xD9BDFD5: IceProcessMessages (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6.3.0)
    ==3538==    by 0x719CD60: QMetaObject::activate(QObject*,
QMetaObject const*, int, void**) (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4)
    ==3538==    by 0x71E91DD: QSocketNotifier::activated(int) (in
/opt/Qt-4.8.4-release/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4)
    --3538-- Discarding syms at 0x153e95d0-0x153eafa8 in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/UTF-16.so due to munmap()

Now it is obvious that the problem comes from the Kernel emiting the
SIGPIPE signal, which afaik means that someone tried to write into a
pipe for which nobody is listening on the other end. I'd like to ask
you about some insight on what is being done when the "track-origins"
option is enabled, and if this SIGPIPE is happening due to something
done in either the Valgrind side or in my app side.

Now, in trying the easy and ugly approach, I just tried to omit the
SIGPIPE signal, by using this call in my app's initialization:
signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);

The results are that nothing interesting is written into the
"valgrind-run.log" file, and this is what appears in the stdout:
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3538, errno = 32

In either case, the signal is emitted just before any text is shown on
screen: the app has a splash screen showing some letters (in order to
force the preload of all font related stuff). This splash screen
appears, but without any contents, before the SIGPIPE comes into
action. May this have anything to do with the problem?

If you read up to here: thank you very much for your time :)