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Re: rebase segmentation fault
- From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin at Denis-Excoffier dot org>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:53:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: rebase segmentation fault
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <EC918951-4A16-4469-B057-5DEC00041699@Denis-Excoffier.org> <20170717083549.GA3345@calimero.vinschen.de> <20170717090522.GB3345@calimero.vinschen.de>
> On 2017-07-17 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Jul 17 10:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 16 19:16, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a Cygwin installation under Windows 7 (32 bits).
>>>
>>> After 'rebase-trigger full' and 'Setup', autorebase seems to finish
>>> okay, but the /etc/rebase.db.i386 remains absent after that. Not a
>>> real problem after all (since rebase was functioning well until some
>>> recent date and all is already rebased), but some third party builds
>>> (like e.g. perl) insist on the presence of the /etc/rebase.db.i386
>>> database.
>>>
>>> Indeed, rebase segfaults in rebase.c and nothing is rebased. This
>>> occurs (see rebase-4.4.2) immediately after "Skip trailing entries as
>>> long as there is no hole." because at some point, all
>>> img_info_list[end].base are equal to 0, the while() is getting always
>>> true, and the variable 'end' is decremented by 1 at every iteration,
>>> until it reaches -1 where the segfault occurs.
>>
>> Patches welcome!
>
> Never mind:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps/rebase.git;a=commitdiff;h=a7d415a
>
Hello,
Please someone to build a new version of the rebase package with this modification included?
Thanks in advance,
Denis Excoffier.
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