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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 53136@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53136: 28.0.90; segfault in lock_file
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:10:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r19htjlp.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bl0l2we3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:36:36 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> This write in `lock_file':
>> 
>>       memcpy (dot, replacement, replacementlen);
>> 
>> Ends up writing one byte outside dot.
>> 
>> I could not find the problem, but someone else may want to take a look.

> Details, please: the values of all the relevant variables at that
> point, including the contents of all the string variables.

gdb says dot is "optimized out" (but valgrind, which I happened to be
running that Emacs under in an attempt to catch the GC bug I reported a
month ago, disagrees).  pidlen is 6.

I will try to get more information from the valgrind core file.

> And what is your value of MAX_LFINFO?

MAX_LFINFO is 8192.

> I don't see how this can be efficiently investigated without this
> data.  In particular, 'dot' has no storage of its own, it's just a
> pointer into the lock_info.user[] array.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-09  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <871r1hv40o.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-01-09  6:04 ` bug#53136: 28.0.90; segfault in lock_file Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09  7:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09  8:10     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-01-09  8:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09  9:40         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09 11:43         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09 12:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-10 23:11             ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-10 23:30               ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-11  0:51                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-11  0:51               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-11  1:05                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-12  2:59                   ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-12  3:04                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-12 19:22                       ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-11 12:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-11 13:16                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-11 17:05                     ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-12  0:35                       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-11  0:58               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-11 12:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 12:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 13:00             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09 13:10               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 13:16                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09 13:23                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-09 13:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 13:47                     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-10  0:29                       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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