* Segfault with weird Message-ID
@ 2009-11-20 13:26 Mike Hommey
2009-11-20 17:04 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-20 20:53 ` Carl Worth
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hommey @ 2009-11-20 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
Hi,
I got a segfault when importing my maildir. It happened because of an
old weird email, where the message-id is the following:
Message-ID: <000022b17a1f$00004fbe$00000550@myrop (ew6.southwind.net [216.53.98.70]) by onyx.southwind.net from homepage.com (114.230.197.216) by newmail.spectraweb.ch from default (m202.2-25.warwick.net [
218.242.202.80]) by host.warwick.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) with SMTP id e9GKEKk19201>
I have absolutely no idea how it got this value, but the mail being
an archived 8 years old spam, I'm not exactly sure if anyone would
still expect such message id to occur.
Anyways, the stack dump is the following:
#0 0x00007ffff6d1e598 in Xapian::Document::add_term(std::string const&, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15
#1 0x000000000040f5ff in _notmuch_message_add_term (message=0x0, prefix_name=0x41ad7f "tag", value=0x4191b0 "inbox") at lib/message.cc:587
#2 0x000000000040f827 in notmuch_message_add_tag (message=0x0, tag=0x4191b0 "inbox") at lib/message.cc:668
#3 0x0000000000407bc8 in tag_inbox_and_unread (message=0x0) at notmuch-new.c:44
#4 0x0000000000407f63 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x832e90 "/home/mh/Maildir/saved-messages/cur", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:185
#5 0x0000000000408036 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x832de0 "/home/mh/Maildir/saved-messages", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:223
#6 0x0000000000408036 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x62c920 "/home/mh/Maildir", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:223
#7 0x0000000000408245 in add_files (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x62c920 "/home/mh/Maildir", state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:287
#8 0x0000000000408704 in notmuch_new_command (ctx=0x61f140, argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe3e8) at notmuch-new.c:431
#9 0x0000000000406ea8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe3d8) at notmuch.c:400
And the most likely problem is that message is NULL.
Now, looking at the code, there seems to me there actually 3 problems:
- _notmuch_message_create_for_message_id can return NULL, and while
there is a test for it in notmuch_database_add_message, the function
still returns a success code
- things are still going on even when message is NULL in
add_files_recursive
- for some reason, xapian doesn't want to add the document corresponding
to this old spam message: notmuch->xapian_db->add_document throws an
exception.
I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue
with some guidance.
Cheers,
Mike
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* Re: Segfault with weird Message-ID
2009-11-20 13:26 Segfault with weird Message-ID Mike Hommey
@ 2009-11-20 17:04 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-20 20:53 ` Carl Worth
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Carl Worth @ 2009-11-20 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Hommey, notmuch
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue
> with some guidance.
It sounds strange to say it, but yes, please send me that spam!
-Carl
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* Re: Segfault with weird Message-ID
2009-11-20 13:26 Segfault with weird Message-ID Mike Hommey
2009-11-20 17:04 ` Carl Worth
@ 2009-11-20 20:53 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-20 21:05 ` Mike Hommey
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Carl Worth @ 2009-11-20 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Hommey, notmuch
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> I got a segfault when importing my maildir. It happened because of an
> old weird email, where the message-id is the following:
> Message-ID: <000022b17a1f$00004fbe$00000550@myrop (ew6.southwind.net [216.53.98.70]) by onyx.southwind.net from homepage.com (114.230.197.216) by newmail.spectraweb.ch from default (m202.2-25.warwick.net [
> 218.242.202.80]) by host.warwick.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) with SMTP id e9GKEKk19201>
Thanks for sharing this Mike, (and for sending me the original file).
> Anyways, the stack dump is the following:
> #0 0x00007ffff6d1e598 in Xapian::Document::add_term(std::string const&, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15
> #1 0x000000000040f5ff in _notmuch_message_add_term (message=0x0, prefix_name=0x41ad7f "tag", value=0x4191b0 "inbox") at lib/message.cc:587
> #2 0x000000000040f827 in notmuch_message_add_tag (message=0x0, tag=0x4191b0 "inbox") at lib/message.cc:668
> #3 0x0000000000407bc8 in tag_inbox_and_unread (message=0x0) at notmuch-new.c:44
> #4 0x0000000000407f63 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x832e90 "/home/mh/Maildir/saved-messages/cur", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:185
> #5 0x0000000000408036 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x832de0 "/home/mh/Maildir/saved-messages", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:223
> #6 0x0000000000408036 in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x62c920 "/home/mh/Maildir", st=0x7fffffffe000, state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:223
> #7 0x0000000000408245 in add_files (notmuch=0x62cc20, path=0x62c920 "/home/mh/Maildir", state=0x7fffffffe240) at notmuch-new.c:287
> #8 0x0000000000408704 in notmuch_new_command (ctx=0x61f140, argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe3e8) at notmuch-new.c:431
> #9 0x0000000000406ea8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe3d8) at notmuch.c:400
I didn't get the same crash when importing the file. But I did get a
short document out of it (just a handful of terms indexed) and most
significantly, an empty message-ID term.
Xapian has a limit on the maximum length of a term, so one thing we'll
need to do here is to notice if the message ID exceeds that length and
then treat it as a we treat a missing Message-ID header, (that is,
generate our own message ID by computing a sha-1 hash over the message).
So, there was an obvious bug in the message-ID handling, (the code was
still looking for NULL for a missing header, but we now return "" for a
missing header instead). I've fixed this.
> Now, looking at the code, there seems to me there actually 3 problems:
> - _notmuch_message_create_for_message_id can return NULL, and while
> there is a test for it in notmuch_database_add_message, the function
> still returns a success code
Thanks. This is fixed now.
> - things are still going on even when message is NULL in
> add_files_recursive
I didn't replicate this case, but it *should* be fixed now that
notmuch_database_add_message is returning a non-success value.
> - for some reason, xapian doesn't want to add the document corresponding
> to this old spam message: notmuch->xapian_db->add_document throws an
> exception.
I think things had just gone wrong long before then.
> I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue
> with some guidance.
Thanks for providing it. It turns out that the giant Message-Id value
wasn't causing the problem. Instead the message was corrupt by having a
stray new line at the third line. (So GMime is seeing only the first two
lines of headers). We *used* to have working code to detect this kind of
file as "not an email" but again, this broke when we changed
notmuch_message_get_header to return "" instead of NULL for missing
headers.
See patches below (just pushed now as well) for the fixes.
-Carl
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From 52292c548512214fd3dd205edb4ca9cf7955f2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add_message: Properly handle missing Message-ID once again.
There's been a fair amount of fallout from when we changed
message_file_get_header from returning NULL to returning "" for
missing headers. This is yet more fallout from that, (where we were
accepting an empty message-ID rather than generating one like we want
to).
---
lib/database.cc | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 726c5a9..294247e 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
* is to find a message ID (or else create one ourselves). */
header = notmuch_message_file_get_header (message_file, "message-id");
- if (header) {
+ if (header && *header != '\0') {
message_id = _parse_message_id (message_file, header, NULL);
/* So the header value isn't RFC-compliant, but it's
* better than no message-id at all. */
--
1.6.5.2
From 656e4c413d84984dcc5fbd8016907ed03c343cb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] notmuch_database_add_message: Add missing error-value propagation.
Thanks to Mike Hommey for doing the analysis that led to noticing that
this was missing.
---
lib/database.cc | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 294247e..58a350d 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -940,8 +940,11 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
talloc_free (message_id);
- if (message == NULL)
+ if (message == NULL) {
+ ret = COERCE_STATUS (private_status,
+ "Unexpected status value from _notmuch_message_create_for_message_id");
goto DONE;
+ }
/* Is this a newly created message object? */
if (private_status == NOTMUCH_PRIVATE_STATUS_NO_DOCUMENT_FOUND) {
--
1.6.5.2
From 3ae12b1e286d1c0041a2e3957cb01daa2981dad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] add_message: Re-fix handling of non-mail files.
More fallout from _get_header now returning "" for missing headers.
The bug here is that we would no longer detect that a file is not an
email message and give up on it like we should.
And this time, I actually audited all callers to
notmuch_message_get_header, so hopefully we're done fixing this
bug over and over.
---
lib/database.cc | 10 +++++-----
lib/message.cc | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 58a350d..207246c 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ _parse_message_id (void *ctx, const char *message_id, const char **next)
const char *s, *end;
char *result;
- if (message_id == NULL)
+ if (message_id == NULL || *message_id == '\0')
return NULL;
s = message_id;
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ parse_references (void *ctx,
{
char *ref;
- if (refs == NULL)
+ if (refs == NULL || *refs == '\0')
return;
while (*refs) {
@@ -896,9 +896,9 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
subject = notmuch_message_file_get_header (message_file, "subject");
to = notmuch_message_file_get_header (message_file, "to");
- if (from == NULL &&
- subject == NULL &&
- to == NULL)
+ if ((from == NULL || *from == '\0') &&
+ (subject == NULL || *subject == '\0') &&
+ (to == NULL || *to == '\0'))
{
ret = NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_NOT_EMAIL;
goto DONE;
diff --git a/lib/message.cc b/lib/message.cc
index 41dddd0..e0b8a8e 100644
--- a/lib/message.cc
+++ b/lib/message.cc
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ _notmuch_message_set_date (notmuch_message_t *message,
/* GMime really doesn't want to see a NULL date, so protect its
* sensibilities. */
- if (date == NULL)
+ if (date == NULL || *date == '\0')
time_value = 0;
else
time_value = g_mime_utils_header_decode_date (date, NULL);
--
1.6.5.2
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* Re: Segfault with weird Message-ID
2009-11-20 20:53 ` Carl Worth
@ 2009-11-20 21:05 ` Mike Hommey
2009-11-21 22:26 ` Mike Hommey
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hommey @ 2009-11-20 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carl Worth; +Cc: notmuch
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> > - for some reason, xapian doesn't want to add the document corresponding
> > to this old spam message: notmuch->xapian_db->add_document throws an
> > exception.
>
> I think things had just gone wrong long before then.
I *did* see it throwing an exception from there. The sad thing is that I
can't reproduce the problem anymore :-/
> > I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue
> > with some guidance.
>
> Thanks for providing it. It turns out that the giant Message-Id value
> wasn't causing the problem. Instead the message was corrupt by having a
> stray new line at the third line. (So GMime is seeing only the first two
> lines of headers). We *used* to have working code to detect this kind of
> file as "not an email" but again, this broke when we changed
> notmuch_message_get_header to return "" instead of NULL for missing
> headers.
Interestingly, when I first traced on what message the crash was
happening, I did see notmuch having the message-id in the message_id
variable.
FWIW, that was using c05c3f1.
I'll see if I can reproduce my segfault again when starting from scratch
again, and will also give a try to your patches.
Cheers,
Mike
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* Re: Segfault with weird Message-ID
2009-11-20 21:05 ` Mike Hommey
@ 2009-11-21 22:26 ` Mike Hommey
2009-11-22 3:12 ` Carl Worth
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hommey @ 2009-11-21 22:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carl Worth; +Cc: notmuch
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:05:56PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Carl Worth wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> > > - for some reason, xapian doesn't want to add the document corresponding
> > > to this old spam message: notmuch->xapian_db->add_document throws an
> > > exception.
> >
> > I think things had just gone wrong long before then.
>
> I *did* see it throwing an exception from there. The sad thing is that I
> can't reproduce the problem anymore :-/
>
> > > I can provide the spam if necessary, or can continue debugging the issue
> > > with some guidance.
> >
> > Thanks for providing it. It turns out that the giant Message-Id value
> > wasn't causing the problem. Instead the message was corrupt by having a
> > stray new line at the third line. (So GMime is seeing only the first two
> > lines of headers). We *used* to have working code to detect this kind of
> > file as "not an email" but again, this broke when we changed
> > notmuch_message_get_header to return "" instead of NULL for missing
> > headers.
>
> Interestingly, when I first traced on what message the crash was
> happening, I did see notmuch having the message-id in the message_id
> variable.
I just was able to reproduce after starting over.
header isn't "", and message_id is correctly filled. I can also confirm
the exception is thrown from notmuch->xapian_db->add_document.
> FWIW, that was using c05c3f1.
With 3ae12b1, I get the following output:
Error: A Xapian exception occurred. Halting processing.
But I confirm there is no crash, now.
Cheers,
Mike
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* Re: Segfault with weird Message-ID
2009-11-21 22:26 ` Mike Hommey
@ 2009-11-22 3:12 ` Carl Worth
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Carl Worth @ 2009-11-22 3:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Hommey; +Cc: notmuch
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:26:15 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> I just was able to reproduce after starting over.
Thanks Mike. I was able to reproduce this as well by eliminating the
spurious blank line I had on the 2nd or 3rd line. (So maybe that managed
to sneak in when you sent me the message.)
> header isn't "", and message_id is correctly filled. I can also confirm
> the exception is thrown from notmuch->xapian_db->add_document.
Yes. We were trying to add a term that is too long for Xapian. I've
fixed this by simply falling back to our existing sha-1 code when a
message ID is long.
Thanks so much for the bug report!
-Carl
commit 5d56e931b99d575dbb0b936d24aae5e9903861ad
Author: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Sun Nov 22 04:03:49 2009 +0100
add_message: Use sha-1 in place of overly long message ID.
Since Xapian has a limit on the maximum length of a term, we have
to check for that before trying to add the message ID as a term.
This fixes the bug reported by Mike Hommey here:
<20091120132625.GA19246@glandium.org>
I've also constructed 20 files with a range of message ID lengths
centered around the Xapian term-length limit which I'll use to seed a
new test suite soon.
diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 169dc5e..f4a445a 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
const char *date, *header;
const char *from, *to, *subject;
- char *message_id;
+ char *message_id = NULL;
if (message_ret)
*message_ret = NULL;
@@ -937,11 +937,20 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
header = notmuch_message_file_get_header (message_file, "message-id");
if (header && *header != '\0') {
message_id = _parse_message_id (message_file, header, NULL);
+
/* So the header value isn't RFC-compliant, but it's
* better than no message-id at all. */
if (message_id == NULL)
message_id = talloc_strdup (message_file, header);
- } else {
+
+ /* Reject a Message ID that's too long. */
+ if (message_id && strlen (message_id) + 1 > NOTMUCH_TERM_MAX) {
+ talloc_free (message_id);
+ message_id = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (message_id == NULL ) {
/* No message-id at all, let's generate one by taking a
* hash over the file's contents. */
char *sha1 = notmuch_sha1_of_file (filename);
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