Re: [PATCH] git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault

> Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I'm running the tests with and without your patch as well.
>> So far I've run t9128 300 times with the patch and no
>> failures.  Without it, it's failed 3 times in only a few
>> dozen runs.  That's promising.
>
> Thanks for confirming it works on other systems.
> Pull request and patch below:
>
> The following changes since commit 5be1f00a9a701532232f57958efab4be8c959a29:
>
>   First batch after 2.16 (2018-01-23 13:21:10 -0800)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   git://bogomips.org/git-svn.git svn-branch-segfault
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 2784b8d68faca823489949cbc69ead2f296cfc07:
>
>   git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault (2018-01-29 23:12:00 +0000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Eric Wong (1):
>       git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault
>
>  git-svn.perl | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

> ---------8<---------
> Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault
>
> It seems necessary to control destruction ordering to avoid a
> segfault with SVN 1.9.5 when using "git svn branch".
> I've also reported the problem against libsvn-perl to Debian
> [Bug #888791], but releasing the SVN::Client instance can be
> beneficial anyways to save memory.
>
> ref: https://bugs.debian.org/888791
> Tested-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
> Reported-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
> ---
>  git-svn.perl | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
> index 76a75d0b3d..a6b6c3e40c 100755
> --- a/git-svn.perl
> +++ b/git-svn.perl
> @@ -1200,6 +1200,11 @@ sub cmd_branch {
>  	$ctx->copy($src, $rev, $dst)
>  		unless $_dry_run;
>  
> +	# Release resources held by ctx before creating another SVN::Ra
> +	# so destruction is orderly.  This seems necessary with SVN 1.9.5
> +	# to avoid segfaults.
> +	$ctx = undef;
> +
>  	$gs->fetch_all;
>  }