bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

[Raffael Stocker]

Dear Emacs,

my Emacs segfaults with certain show-paren settings.  To reproduce:

run emacs -Q

Evaluate the following forms:
(show-paren-mode 1)
(setq show-paren-when-point-in-periphery t)
(setq show-paren-style 'mixed)

Then type ‘C-h i’, then ‘1’ to bring up the first info manual, then
‘C-p’ to go to the previous line, which has the name of the manual in
parentheses.  This makes my Emacs crash, both in terminal and X.

The two show-paren options both seem to be required for Emacs to crash.

I haven't changed my paren-mode settings in while and this issue seems
fairly recent to me, so perhaps the Arch Linux build is to blame
somehow.

This might be related to other bug reports where show-paren-mode was
active. 


In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.27, cairo version 1.17.4)
 of 2021-03-26 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101002
System Description: Arch Linux

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...
t [2 times]
mixed
Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-wide-int
 --with-modules --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64
 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON
PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs
format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg
epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date
subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs
cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils
paren tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar
dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment
text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar
rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic
cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray
cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 46609 5571)
 (symbols 48 6274 1)
 (strings 32 16079 1529)
 (string-bytes 1 510069)
 (vectors 16 10171)
 (vector-slots 8 130891 10964)
 (floats 8 22 45)
 (intervals 56 212 0)
 (buffers 1000 13))

bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Raffael Stocker <r.stocker@mnet-mail.de> writes:

> my Emacs segfaults with certain show-paren settings.  To reproduce:
>
> run emacs -Q
>
> Evaluate the following forms:
> (show-paren-mode 1)
> (setq show-paren-when-point-in-periphery t)
> (setq show-paren-style 'mixed)
>
> Then type ‘C-h i’, then ‘1’ to bring up the first info manual, then
> ‘C-p’ to go to the previous line, which has the name of the manual in
> parentheses.  This makes my Emacs crash, both in terminal and X.
>
> The two show-paren options both seem to be required for Emacs to crash.

Thanks for the clear recipe for reproduction.

I can reproduce this problem in Emacs 27.2, too, but not in Emacs 28, so
it sounds like this has been fixed.  Would it be possible for you to
build Emacs 28 to confirm this?

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bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

[Raffael Stocker]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I can reproduce this problem in Emacs 27.2, too, but not in Emacs 28, so
> it sounds like this has been fixed.  Would it be possible for you to
> build Emacs 28 to confirm this?

I'll give it a try, but this will take a while on my bronze age laptop...

bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Raffael Stocker <r.stocker@mnet-mail.de>
> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:13:20 +0100
> 
> run emacs -Q
> 
> Evaluate the following forms:
> (show-paren-mode 1)
> (setq show-paren-when-point-in-periphery t)
> (setq show-paren-style 'mixed)
> 
> Then type ‘C-h i’, then ‘1’ to bring up the first info manual, then
> ‘C-p’ to go to the previous line, which has the name of the manual in
> parentheses.  This makes my Emacs crash, both in terminal and X.
> 
> The two show-paren options both seem to be required for Emacs to crash.

Thanks, this is a known problem in Emacs 27.2 which was already fixed
for Emacs 28.  You may wish trying the latest pretest of Emacs 28.1.

I'm therefore closing this bug.