Memory corruption when GOGC=on

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Error unexpected fault address might be triggered by data race or memory
corruption. With fully code review, I prefer memory corruption rather data race.

the following code panics occasionally, and yes, even when I initialize silces.

package controlcan

import "C"

cReceive := make([]C.struct__CAN_OBJ, 2500)

or

package main

import "controlcan"

pReceive := make([]controlcan.CanObj, 2500)

Both of them trigger the error occasionally:

unexpected fault address 0xffffffffffffffff
fatal error: fault
[signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0xffffffffffffffff pc=0x41c65d]

goroutine 41 [running]:
runtime.throw(0xcc969a, 0x5)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:619 +0x88 fp=0xc0428ffb38 sp=0xc0428ffb18 pc=0x42d0b8
runtime.sigpanic()
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/signal_windows.go:170 +0x13a fp=0xc0428ffb68 sp=0xc0428ffb38 pc=0x43fcca
runtime.gcMarkRootPrepare()
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/mgcmark.go:72 +0x5d fp=0xc0428ffb70 sp=0xc0428ffb68 pc=0x41c65d
runtime.gcStart(0x0, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/mgc.go:1350 +0x30f fp=0xc0428ffba0 sp=0xc0428ffb70 pc=0x419b6f
runtime.mallocgc(0x10000, 0xc54660, 0xc0422ee001, 0xc0423ded60)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:803 +0x448 fp=0xc0428ffc40 sp=0xc0428ffba0 pc=0x411c48
runtime.makeslice(0xc54660, 0x9c4, 0x9c4, 0xc04202ce00, 0xc04202c000, 0x411b23)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/slice.go:61 +0x7e fp=0xc0428ffc70 sp=0xc0428ffc40 pc=0x43fffe
controlcan.Receive(0x4, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc04267e000, 0x9c4, 0x9c4, 0x64, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /media/sf_GOPATH0/src/controlcan/controlcan.go:262 +0x75 fp=0xc0428ffd70 sp=0xc0428ffc70 pc=0xa0d795
posam/protocol/usbcan.(*Channel).receive(0xc04229d490)
        /media/sf_GOPATH0/src/posam/protocol/usbcan/usbcan.go:469 +0x536 fp=0xc0428fffd8 sp=0xc0428ffd70 pc=0xa10926
runtime.goexit()
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:2361 +0x1 fp=0xc0428fffe0 sp=0xc0428fffd8 pc=0x457531
created by posam/protocol/usbcan.(*Channel).Start
        /media/sf_GOPATH0/src/posam/protocol/usbcan/usbcan.go:242 +0x3aa

I got confused for couple of days, until the app runs with GOGC=off.
Everything works fine except the increasing memory usage.

According to what Dave Cheney said in cgo is not Go:

C doesn’t know anything about Go’s calling convention or growable stacks, so a call down to C code must record all the details of the goroutine stack, switch to the C stack, and run C code which has no knowledge of how it was invoked, or the larger Go runtime in charge of the program.

and JimB said in stackoverflow:

Another possibility is if you’re passing a pointer to C that goes out of scope and is occasionaly GC’ed before the cgo call returns

I realize that it is possible to trigger memory corruption when using cgo.
But in the above situation, the only things required is the type CanObj,
not any variables.

So what is the reason of this error, and how can I play well with cgo?

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Thank you!

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