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* bug#16344: 24.3; xml-parse-region stuck on specific input, uses lots of memory
@ 2014-01-04 23:39 Christopher Wellons
  2016-03-02 18:11 ` Ulf Jasper
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Wellons @ 2014-01-04 23:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 16344


The function `xml-parse-region' is never returning from parsing this
specific input. It's saturing a CPU core while using huge quantities of
memory. Fortunately it can be aborted with C-g.

    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert "<!----><x>< /x>")
      (xml-parse-region))

The trigger is a comment followed by at least one opening tag followed
by a stray less-than character. This is not valid XML due to that extra
space in the closing tag, but I'm expecting `xml-parse-region' to signal
an error in the case of invalid input rather than lock up Emacs.

Just for the sake of context, this issue was initially discovered here:

https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/issues/17





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* bug#16344: 24.3; xml-parse-region stuck on specific input, uses lots of memory
  2014-01-04 23:39 bug#16344: 24.3; xml-parse-region stuck on specific input, uses lots of memory Christopher Wellons
@ 2016-03-02 18:11 ` Ulf Jasper
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ulf Jasper @ 2016-03-02 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christopher Wellons; +Cc: 16344, 16344-done

Fixed in branch emacs-25.

xml-parser will throw an error now.






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