Unable to find root cause of ArgumentException

Question

I'm investigating the cause of the huge amount of ArgumentException in an application (and I'm suspecting that its main reason for memory fragmentation/out of memory exception). The problem is that I can't find where this exception is coming from.

I have memory dump of the problematic service but all I can see is that it happened on one of the threads and that it is related to reflection stuff, other than that it seems that I can't find the cause of the exception.

ArgumentException details:

Exception type:   System.ArgumentException
Message:          Missing parameter does not have a default value.
InnerException:   <none>
StackTrace (generated):
    SP       IP       Function
    0347D2F0 72B006F2 mscorlib_ni!System.Reflection.MethodBase.CheckArguments(System.Object[], System.Reflection.Binder, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Globalization.CultureInfo, System.Signature)+0xc27c02
    0347D328 71EC0EDB mscorlib_ni!System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InvokeArgumentsCheck(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)+0x9b
    0347D35C 71EC0DD7 mscorlib_ni!System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)+0x37
    0347D390 71EC0D8E mscorlib_ni!System.Reflection.RuntimePropertyInfo.GetValue(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)+0x3e

StackTraceString: <none>
HResult: 80070057

Output of ~#s; !clrstack:

OS Thread Id: 0x524 (1)
Child SP       IP Call Site
033fcf00 7726a8fc [HelperMethodFrame: 033fcf00] 
033fcfb0 72b006f2 System.Reflection.MethodBase.CheckArguments(System.Object[], System.Reflection.Binder, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Globalization.CultureInfo, System.Signature)
033fcfe8 71ec0edb System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InvokeArgumentsCheck(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
033fd01c 71ec0dd7 System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
033fd050 71ec0d8e System.Reflection.RuntimePropertyInfo.GetValue(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
033fda64 730eebe6 [DebuggerU2MCatchHandlerFrame: 033fda64] 
033fda34 730eebe6 [GCFrame: 033fda34] 
033fda18 730eebe6 [GCFrame: 033fda18]

How to find out where this exception came from? It looks like its missing part of the stack trace.

@spodger this happens on our production server and we don't see those on testing environment on our local machines. — Ivan Milosavljevic, May 01 '19 at 10:39

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '19 at 11:41

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According to the Microsoft documentation, The PropertyInfo.GetValue() method throws an ArgumentException when either of the following is true:

"The index array does not contain the type of arguments needed.

-or-

The property's get accessor is not found."

I would look for any calls in the source code that are calling GetValue() and inspect the arguments being passed into them. One of the two scenarios outlined above is likely the culprit.

answered May 01 '19 at 11:41

Bryan Ponnwitz

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Good point @bryan-ponnwitz. Actually, I don't know why I haven't looked at msdn before. Thing is that I was looking at the .net source code and found this https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/reflection/methodbase.cs,355. This line of code will throw if parameter default value is DBNull but that kida contradicts msdn source? – Ivan Milosavljevic May 01 '19 at 12:11

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