From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 40661@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40661: Crash in regex search during redisplay
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:35:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM58ohH_QVDskmVmqV_LSKqtcAmWReL-5T=b3T2ng5QbabSrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9d50d4a-67fe-ad6f-2657-09b1eca55839@dancol.org>
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 18:24, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/16/20 9:56 AM, Richard Copley wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 17:42, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On April 16, 2020 9:33:16 AM PDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >>>> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:36:36 +0300
> >>>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >>>> Cc: 40661@debbugs.gnu.org
> >>>>
> >>>> Looks like GC sometimes kicks in while we are inside re_search_2
> >>>
> >>> Or not. I cannot get a breakpoint inside GC to fire while we are in
> >>> search_buffer_re, so maybe my hypothesis was wrong. Although the
> >>> symptoms are all there: when the segfault hits, the pointers passed to
> >>> re_search_2 are invalid, but BEGV_ADDR and GAP_END_ADDR, from which
> >>> they are supposed to be computed, are valid (and different). And the
> >>> patch does seem to avoid the segfaults. But maybe it's just a
> >>> coincidence or a side effect...
> >>
> >> Try using rr and see where those pointers came from
> >
> > It seems clear from "str1=str1@entry=0xc607fd", etc., that they come
> > from the caller, search_buffer_re. The question is, why are they no
> > longer valid after updating syntax?
>
> Right. So let's see what updated the valid pointers and invalidated the
> invalid ones.
Right, I see. Anyway, I wasn't able to reproduce the bug under
GNU/Linux (in order to use rr), or make much progress with GDB on
Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-16 14:35 bug#40661: Crash in regex search during redisplay Richard Copley
2020-04-16 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-16 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-16 16:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-04-16 16:56 ` Richard Copley
2020-04-16 17:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-04-16 19:35 ` Richard Copley [this message]
2020-04-17 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-17 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-17 14:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-04-17 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-17 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-17 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-18 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-20 18:30 ` Richard Copley
2020-04-20 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-20 23:04 ` Richard Copley
2020-09-30 3:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-16 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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