Re: [BUG] crash on make test
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Dec 4, 2009, 10:35 UTC
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:38:58PM +0100, Marinescu Paul dan wrote:
> I got a crash on git's make test with and a core file in ./t/trash > directory.t4200-rerere/ The problem seems to be in garbage_collect > (builtin-rerere.c) where readdir can be called with a null pointer
Hmm. The problematic code is pretty straightforward to see, but what I don't understand is how you managed to trigger it. The code path to get there makes sure that the rr-cache directory exists (because we check whether rerere is enabled, which means either rr-cache exists, or rerere.enabled is set, and in the latter case we mkdir the directory).
I can see how it might happen if rr-cache exists but isn't readable. I can easily trigger a segfault with:
mkdir .git/rr-cache sudo chown root .git/rr-cache sudo chmod 0700 .git/rr-cache git gc
and we should definitely fix that (patch below).
But how do you end up with this situation in the middle of the test suite? And if it is not a permissions problem, but that the directory is missing, that would indicate something randomly deleting files while you're running the test.
I think we should apply the patch below to maint, as this is something that can come up due to permissions problems. But I fear it won't actually fix the test failure you are seeing; you will just see it die() instead of segfaulting. However, the value of errno should give us a clue about what is happening, so please try running the test again with this patch.
-- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache
The rr-cache directory should always exist if we are doing garbage collection (earlier code paths check this explicitly), but we may not necessarily succeed in opening it (for example, due to permissions problems). In that case, we should print an error message rather than simply segfaulting.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- builtin-rerere.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-rerere.c b/builtin-rerere.c index 343d6cd..2be9ffb 100644 --- a/builtin-rerere.c +++ b/builtin-rerere.c @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ static void garbage_collect(struct string_list *rr) git_config(git_rerere_gc_config, NULL); dir = opendir(git_path("rr-cache")); + if (!dir) + die_errno("unable to open rr-cache directory"); while ((e = readdir(dir))) { if (is_dot_or_dotdot(e->d_name)) continue;
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