Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:59:44 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Fix for rman [was: Re: [-CURRENT tinderbox] ...] Message-ID: <20030716085944.GB26428@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030716074337.GA17997@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030715175821.K34004@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <xzp65m3vfw1.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20030715185438.GB15674@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <xzpy8yzty2m.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20030715190456.GC15674@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030715193518.GA1660@crow.dom2ip.de> <20030716010908.GA24218@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030716051103.GB17596@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030716051601.GA25527@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030716074337.GA17997@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:43:37AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:16:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > malloc, you say? I have build failures in XFree4-clients because > > > rman coredumps and I have a backtrace full of free() frames... > > > > > > Coincidence? > > > > Some of the XFree86 utilities contain malloc bugs..rman in particular > > has been dumping core on certain ports for a couple of years. I tried > > to track it down once but couldn't find it. > > [cc anholt@] > > The attached patch fixes rman. The faulting case is "\\\0". The '\0' > was handled in the default case for escaped characters, which also > incremented the pointer p beyond the terminating '\0'. > > Oh: this goes to devel/imake-4 of course. > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net The print/gv port has patch-ad to work around another rman bug. This bug is only exposed by malloc debugging. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/FRQAWry0BWjoQKURAj1mAKCWpv9spSxgPZ3SgeMPdZRZXErMUQCggRpC nG/xeKR2igUy1C3DMywv3Cs= =hHl6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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