bug#63283: Emacs crash within fontset

[Seppo Ronkainen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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% gdb --args /home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/inst/bin/emacs -Q ~/examplefilewithunicodetext
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Reading symbols from /home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/inst/bin/emacs...
(gdb) source /home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/cons/src/.gdbinit
Warning: /home/user/../lwlib: No such file or directory.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
DISPLAY = :0
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x205be8: file emacs.c, line 427.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x1c4388: file xterm.c, line 26126.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/inst/bin/emacs -Q /home/user/examplefilewithunicodetext
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ff4a8ee80 (LWP 52196)]

(process:52189): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:29:18.069: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
[Detaching after vfork from child process 52197]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 52198]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 52199]

fontset.c:970: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: fontset_id_valid_p (face->fontset)

Thread 1 "emacs" hit Breakpoint 1, terminate_due_to_signal (sig=6, backtrace_limit=2147483647) at emacs.c:427
427       signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
(gdb) thread 1
[Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ff5d6f700 (LWP 52189))]
#0  terminate_due_to_signal (sig=6, backtrace_limit=2147483647) at emacs.c:427
427       signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
(gdb) bt 5
#0  terminate_due_to_signal (sig=6, backtrace_limit=2147483647) at emacs.c:427
#1  0x000000555581ba04 in die (msg=0x55559f6900 "fontset_id_valid_p (face->fontset)", file=0x55559f6608 "fontset.c", line=970) at alloc.c:7707
#2  0x00000055559233c4 in face_for_char (f=0x55564c8470, face=0x5556292b90, c=12302, pos=1, object=XIL(0)) at fontset.c:970
#3  0x00000055555bd308 in FACE_FOR_CHAR (f=0x55564c8470, face=0x5556292b90, character=12302, pos=1, object=XIL(0)) at dispextern.h:1911
#4  0x00000055555dd054 in get_next_display_element (it=0x7fffff8a88) at xdisp.c:8184
(More stack frames follow...)

Lisp Backtrace:
"redisplay_internal (C function)" (0x0)
(gdb) frame 2
#2  0x00000055559233c4 in face_for_char (f=0x55564c8470, face=0x5556292b90, c=12302, pos=1, object=XIL(0)) at fontset.c:970
970       eassert (fontset_id_valid_p (face->fontset));
(gdb) info locals
fontset = XIL(0)
rfont_def = XIL(0x555605b2b8)
charset = XIL(0x300effff7380)
face_id = 85
id = 1432078920
(gdb) print font_driver_list
$1 = (struct font_driver_list *) 0x55560d77e0
(gdb) print f->font_driver_list
$2 = (struct font_driver_list *) 0x5556274ae0
(gdb) frame 3
#3  0x00000055555bd308 in FACE_FOR_CHAR (f=0x55564c8470, face=0x5556292b90, character=12302, pos=1, object=XIL(0)) at dispextern.h:1911
(gdb) p face->font
$5 = (struct font *) 0x0
(gdb) p face->fontset
$6 = -1
(gdb) q



if fontset carried -1 .. which in turn



/home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/cons/src/fontset.c:970
  eassert (fontset_id_valid_p (face->fontset));
  fontset = FONTSET_FROM_ID (face->fontset);
  eassert (!BASE_FONTSET_P (fontset));




/home/user/.local/emacs-29.0.90_debug/cons/src/fontset.c:176
static bool
fontset_id_valid_p (int id)
{
  return (id >= 0 && id < ASIZE (Vfontset_table) - 1);
}



relevant commit ?
3c0dda2663e38635163f0fd6c19748c6eba1c3c8
Avoid asserting for fontset validity before it is used







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------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, May 6th, 2023 at 7:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 19:12:53 +0000
> > From: Seppo Ronkainen sodr80@protonmail.com
> > Cc: 63283@debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > sure, here are captures of gdb and system-configuration-features from two build variants of 29.0.90 and one 26.3
> 
> 
> Thanks. Please repeat this session again, and this time, when Emacs
> aborts and GDB shows its prompt, do this:
> 
> (gdb) thread 1
> (gdb) pp fontset
> 
> If GDB says that it doesn't know the command "pp", type
> 
> (gdb) source /path/to/emacs/src/.gdbinit
> (gdb) pp fontset
> 
> and post everything GDB prints after that.
> 
> And one more data point: in the same session do this:
> 
> (gdb) frame 2
> (gdb) print font_driver_list
> (gdb) print f->font_driver_list
> 
> 
> and show the values GDB prints.