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Re: [patch] Fix for heap corruption in python pretty printing.
- From: "Paul Pluzhnikov" <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- To: "Tom Tromey" <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: archer at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:43:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for heap corruption in python pretty printing.
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:
>
> Paul> Since Monday, pretty-printing started crashing on me with glibc
> Paul> 'double free' :(
>
> Paul> I've just committed attached patch, which demonstrates the problem
> Paul> in a simple test case and fixes it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This looks like a longstanding bug. I wonder why we haven't hit it
> before.
I've had somewhat hard time getting a small test case.
> Would you mind submitting this upstream as well? This part of the
> value code appears there.
I can't seem to trigger the bug on mainline.
Could this be because .owned_by_gdb is left uninitialized, doesn't
happen to be zero, and so value_free() never fires?
Should I just check in the fix without creating a test case for it?
> I've just been checking in my changes without comment. Would you
> prefer that I email them here with explanations? I'm happy to do that
> if it would be useful to you.
Yes, it is sometimes hard to figure out what has changed and why.
I am much more used to the commit message containing an explanation
of 'why', but the GDB ChangeLog/commit message just says 'what',
and if you want to know the reason for change, you have to dig
through list archives :(
And if you don't explain changes in the list, then all hope of
finding out 'why' is lost ...
Thanks,
--
Paul Pluzhnikov