# 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults

7 messages from 2006-05-17 to 2006-05-18. Participants: Bill Yoder, Fernando J. Pereda, Junio C Hamano, Pavel Roskin, Linus Torvalds.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4186

## Bill Yoder, 2006-05-17 18:32

Subject: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <879BAFDD-87DB-4041-8753-5D63630076B5@cs.utexas.edu>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/879BAFDD-87DB-4041-8753-5D63630076B5%40cs.utexas.edu

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Dear Git maintainers:

I have twice downloaded git-1.3.2, most recently the git-1.3.2.tar.gz  
source package from http://www.t2-project.org/packages/git.html.   
Both the prebuilt version and the source version, built with gcc  
3.2.3 on x86/Linux, run into trouble when executing this command:

% git --exec-path=/usr/local/downloads/git-1.3.2 clone http:// 
www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git linux-2.6-denx

Both git operations proceed with some 18,000+ lines of output,  
culminating in this message:

got 243a15f54002445f5b8b4938981ec90430b73ec6
got 03914b7e41b17871aea961f6522ec4ce26a4f8ed
got a305ae2e44b6dde305d3afe241768e32c47d8907
got 33a653913d942fa35c263edf1d019f36f4e0f5b1
got f13f49afe198cc0d59e998fe3a6e721d70fca6b4
error: The requested URL returned error: 405 (curl_result = 22,  
http_code = 405, sha1 = b323ff5779672c77b6adfba1c1bdc87f4981f85c)
error: Unable to find b323ff5779672c77b6adfba1c1bdc87f4981f85c under  
http://www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git/
Cannot obtain needed blob b323ff5779672c77b6adfba1c1bdc87f4981f85c
while processing commit ea989b3245993f95e58e6c0320bf6165a949b072.
Waiting for http://www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git/objects/ 
31/548303ee3767095f86efb47696ce433662450e
/usr/local/downloads/git-1.3.2/git-clone: line 323: 25972  
Segmentation fault      git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"

I have also tested git-1.2.3 built from source, and it works dandily.

Please let me know if I can supply more information or if I'm  
misusing the command.

Thanks,

Bill Yoder
Git Newbie

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## Fernando J. Pereda, 2006-05-17 18:41

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <20060517184121.GA17846@ferdyx.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060517184121.GA17846%40ferdyx.org
In-Reply-To: <879BAFDD-87DB-4041-8753-5D63630076B5@cs.utexas.edu>

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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:32:39PM -0500, Bill Yoder wrote:
> Please let me know if I can supply more information or if I'm
> misusing the command.

I reported this same issue to Nick Hengeveld and he said he'll take a
look at it. this is also Gentoo Bug #133412 [1].

- ferdy

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133412

-- 
Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED  ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2006-05-17 18:46

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <7vwtckcwve.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vwtckcwve.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <879BAFDD-87DB-4041-8753-5D63630076B5@cs.utexas.edu>

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Bill Yoder <byoder@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> I have twice downloaded git-1.3.2, most recently the git-1.3.2.tar.gz
> source package from http://www.t2-project.org/packages/git.html.

Could you try 1.3.3?

```

## Bill Yoder, 2006-05-17 19:27

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <1871789F-06D0-423F-A87D-1BFF9E0FC8E1@cs.utexas.edu>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1871789F-06D0-423F-A87D-1BFF9E0FC8E1%40cs.utexas.edu
In-Reply-To: <7vwtckcwve.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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Dear Junio (and Fernando):

> Could you try 1.3.3?

Here are the last few lines of output from 1.3.3, cooked with gcc 3.2.3:

Getting alternates list for http://www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git/
got b603ba9e9b5482d3e80fc8e0fa96bb9a943502ff
got 1635ee25918fc19ea613d1e8dbcb672075220efb
got dd7d627bf66f306b4ee9401f06ed4fb574896a85
got c771a7db9871bfa3f3c76b78c1369111c4be767b
got 374e20ad8b0d02f15fbcaa5315e272eabd6c4f76
got a8bef1d1371cc999ce6882d355c7554ca7738173
got ab08f35cbc355f4b2058d88ff289552f202ea5b4
Getting pack list for http://www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git/
got 92297ff24e8525de2617dff728b3420a4649f66a
got 93dcbe1abb4c83b65cc6af59fb84c3c5e16effbb
got 41ecbb847f32f301a7ecd30b6438fea702886a33
got 94f557fa46369ec94ec718d25616ceb0b73fd2d2
got 09e00433c78e267b37b3f485c0d877de780a0674
got da7c09e4ede6e83198bf1ab5f16c571b0cc214ee
got 85533ec5aaa17f4146452a16ef61ca40fc601c80
got 50e338d2ffda9cb5a835d67849e38ae0ceba1647
/usr/local/downloads/git-1.3.3/git-clone: line 323:  1124  
Segmentation fault      git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"

Regards,
Bill

```

## Pavel Roskin, 2006-05-17 19:29

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <1147894165.16654.10.camel@dv>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1147894165.16654.10.camel%40dv
In-Reply-To: <879BAFDD-87DB-4041-8753-5D63630076B5@cs.utexas.edu>

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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:32 -0500, Bill Yoder wrote:
> /usr/local/downloads/git-1.3.2/git-clone: line 323: 25972  
> Segmentation fault      git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"

I've seen git-http-fetch segfaults many times when cloning qgit, but
it's hard to reproduce on demand.

I think you should compile git without optimizations and allow coredumps
(ulimit -c  unlimited), then load git-http-fetch in gdb with the core
(gdb --core=core git-http-fetch) and run bt to see the backtrace.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

```

## Pavel Roskin, 2006-05-17 23:52

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <1147909920.32050.29.camel@dv>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1147909920.32050.29.camel%40dv
In-Reply-To: <1147894165.16654.10.camel@dv>

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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:29 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:32 -0500, Bill Yoder wrote:
> > /usr/local/downloads/git-1.3.2/git-clone: line 323: 25972  
> > Segmentation fault      git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"
> 
> I've seen git-http-fetch segfaults many times when cloning qgit, but
> it's hard to reproduce on demand.
> 
> I think you should compile git without optimizations and allow coredumps
> (ulimit -c  unlimited), then load git-http-fetch in gdb with the core
> (gdb --core=core git-http-fetch) and run bt to see the backtrace.

Also comment out both "trap" invocations in git-clone, or the coredump
will be deleted.

That's what I've got on Fedora Core 5 x86_64 with glibc and curl debug
info installed:

#0  __strncasecmp (s1=Variable "s1" is not available.
) at strncase.c:68
68        while ((result = TOLOWER (*p1) - TOLOWER (*p2++)) == 0)
(gdb) where
#0  __strncasecmp (s1=Variable "s1" is not available.
) at strncase.c:68
#1  0x00000031f3e26c09 in curl_strnequal (first=Variable "first" is not available.
) at strequal.c:60
#2  0x00000031f3e0f43a in checkheaders (data=Variable "data" is not available.
) at http.c:119
#3  0x00000031f3e10cf9 in Curl_http (conn=0x1c421c0, done=Variable "done" is not available.
) at http.c:1580
#4  0x00000031f3e1a858 in Curl_do (connp=0x83af88, done=0x7fff29c97ebb "\001\001")
    at url.c:3841
#5  0x00000031f3e28f22 in curl_multi_perform (multi_handle=0x53b590, 
    running_handles=0x7fff29c97ef8) at multi.c:526
#6  0x00000000004040c0 in step_active_slots () at http.c:376
#7  0x000000000040412c in run_active_slot (slot=0x546690) at http.c:400
#8  0x0000000000403e44 in http_cleanup () at http.c:275
#9  0x00000000004077d7 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fff29c98258) at http-fetch.c:1274
(gdb) p p1
$1 = (const unsigned char *) 0x0
(gdb) p p2
$2 = (const unsigned char *) 0x31f3e2e817 "User-Agent:"
(gdb)

Looks like a curl bug to me.  curl 7.15.1, glibc 2.4, git master branch.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

```

## Linus Torvalds, 2006-05-18 00:54

Subject: Re: 1.3.2 git-clone segfaults
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605171752190.10823@g5.osdl.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0605171752190.10823%40g5.osdl.org
In-Reply-To: <1147909920.32050.29.camel@dv>

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On Wed, 17 May 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> Looks like a curl bug to me.  curl 7.15.1, glibc 2.4, git master branch.

If the thing is fixed by turning off DAV support (and I thought somebody 
reported it was), maybe we should turn that off by default? Ie, make 
NO_EXPAT be the default, and you have to explicitly turn it off.

		Linus

```
