Track where WebContents are created in order to better understand issue.

components/constrained_window/constrained_window_views.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "components/constrained_window/constrained_window_views.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
 
 #include "components/constrained_window/constrained_window_views_client.h"
 #include "components/guest_view/browser/guest_view_base.h"
 #include "components/web_modal/web_contents_modal_dialog_host.h"
 #include "components/web_modal/web_contents_modal_dialog_manager.h"
 #include "components/web_modal/web_contents_modal_dialog_manager_delegate.h"
+#include "content/public/browser/web_contents_source.h"
 #include "ui/views/border.h"
 #include "ui/views/widget/widget.h"
 #include "ui/views/widget/widget_observer.h"
 #include "ui/views/window/dialog_delegate.h"
 
 using web_modal::ModalDialogHost;
 using web_modal::ModalDialogHostObserver;
 
 namespace constrained_window {
 namespace {
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   content::WebContents* web_contents =
       guest_view::GuestViewBase::GetTopLevelWebContents(initiator_web_contents);
   views::Widget* widget = CreateWebModalDialogViews(dialog, web_contents);
   web_modal::WebContentsModalDialogManager::FromWebContents(web_contents)
       ->ShowModalDialog(widget->GetNativeWindow());
   return widget;
 }
 
 views::Widget* CreateWebModalDialogViews(views::WidgetDelegate* dialog,
                                          content::WebContents* web_contents) {
+  // Code to help trace the source of http://crbug.com/538612
+  WebContentsSource* web_contents_creation_site =
+      WebContentsSource::FromWebContents(web_contents);
+  tracked_objects::Location created_location;
+  if (web_contents_creation_site)
+    created_location = web_contents_creation_site->created_location();
+  base::debug::Alias(&created_location);

[Mike Wittman, 2015/11/11 17:15:28]

needs an #include

[hcarmona, 2015/11/11 19:57:58]

Done.

+  CHECK(
+      web_modal::WebContentsModalDialogManager::FromWebContents(web_contents));
+
   DCHECK_EQ(ui::MODAL_TYPE_CHILD, dialog->GetModalType());
   return views::DialogDelegate::CreateDialogWidget(
       dialog, nullptr,
       web_modal::WebContentsModalDialogManager::FromWebContents(web_contents)
           ->delegate()
           ->GetWebContentsModalDialogHost()
           ->GetHostView());
 }
 
 views::Widget* CreateBrowserModalDialogViews(views::DialogDelegate* dialog,
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     DCHECK_EQ(parent_view, host->GetHostView());
     ModalDialogHostObserver* dialog_host_observer =
         new WidgetModalDialogHostObserverViews(
             host, widget, kWidgetModalDialogHostObserverViewsKey);
     dialog_host_observer->OnPositionRequiresUpdate();
   }
   return widget;
 }
 
 }  // namespace constrained window