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Created by Glenn K. Lockwood@glockDeveloper

darshan_common_val_counter segfaults when common_val_count >= DARSHAN_COMMON_VAL_MAX_RUNTIME_COUNT

I have an application that segfaults inside darshan_common_val_counter() as a result of (apparently) *common_val_count reaching DARSHAN_COMMON_VAL_MAX_RUNTIME_COUNT. The found pointer is never defined, so by the time the following code is reached at the bottom of darshan_common_val_counter():

/* update common access counters as we go */
    DARSHAN_COMMON_VAL_COUNTER_INC(common_val_p, common_cnt_p,
        found->val, found->freq, 1);

found remains undefined and catastrophe results.

I'm not clear on how this condition of *common_val_count == DARSHAN_COMMON_VAL_MAX_RUNTIME_COUNT is reached, but found definitely is dereferenced before it is defined when it happens.

I can provide my application source if it would help. This bug happened using the 3.1.1 tag on both Cori/KNL and Cori/Haswell at NERSC.