rebase segmentation fault

Denis Excoffier cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org
Tue Jan 9 17:53:00 GMT 2018


> 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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