Sending SIGINT to a program that uses forkOS may crash with various errors

This is the program:

module Main ( main ) where

import Control.Concurrent
import Control.Monad

main :: IO ()
main = recursive 0
  where
    recursive n = do
        tid <- forkIO $ do
            replicateM_ 100 $ forkOS $ return ()
        replicateM_ (n `mod` 1000) yield
        recursive (n+1)

I was trying to investigate a potential issue with leaking StablePtrs in forkOS but that's another story.

Compile with ghc Main.hs -prof -auto-all -threaded -o Main. Run as ./Main +RTS -h (I don't know if it's absolutely necessary to turn heap profiling on but I have more trouble getting these error messages without it).

Then, stop the program with SIGINT (by pressing CTRL+C or otherwise). The program sometimes crashes and produces one of the these two error messages:

Main: internal error: RELEASE_LOCK: I do not own this lock: rts/Task.c 242
    (GHC version 7.10.1 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
    Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

Main: newBoundTask: RTS is not initialised; call hs_init() first

Sometimes the message may be slightly garbled (notice double internal error below):

Î: internal error: Main: internal error: RELEASE_LOCK: I do not own this lock: rts/Task.c 242
    (GHC version 7.10.1 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
    Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

Replacing forkOS with forkIO seems to stop the messages. I can't reproduce this on FreeBSD. I'm using the downloaded binaries of 7.10.1 from GHC site on Arch Linux.

I used this simple bash script to see more of these messages because it won't crash reliably:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    timeout -s INT 0.2 ./Main +RTS -h
done

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Version	7.10.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	low
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Runtime System
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CC	simonmar
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