Re: Segmentation fault with latest git (070c57df)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 31, 2013, 06:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20130131064921.GB24660@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <28799936.346521359596121253.JavaMail.weblogic@epmltmp3>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:35:21AM +0000, Jongman Heo wrote:

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> Looks like following commit causes a segmentation fault in my machine
> (when running git pull or git fetch);
> 
> commit 8dd5afc926acb9829ebf56e9b78826a5242cd638
> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Date:   Mon Jan 7 12:24:55 2013 -0800
> 
>     string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
> 
> 
> In my case, list->cmp (at get_entry_index() function) has an invalid
> address, obviously not an address of string comparision function,
> instead it points to 1.

Can you show us a stack trace? The string-list functions are generic and get called in a lot of places. It would be useful to know which list is causing the problem.

-Peff