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bug #48433: lkbib with empty file dumps core

Submitter:  Osamu Sayama <sayama>
Submitted:  Thu 07 Jul 2016 07:02:31 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Preprocessor refer Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Crash/Unresponsive Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  carstenkunze
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Tue 01 Mar 2022 02:07:12 PM UTC, comment #2: 


commit 2ac1f9ba5578cad27dc547d5be3c91753db436ea
Author: Osamu Sayama <sayama>
Date:   Fri Apr 28 23:56:15 2017 +0200

    lkbib with empty file dumps core

    See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48433


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Sat 25 Jul 2020 06:46:39 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in commit 2ac1f9ba5578cad27dc547d5be3c91753db436ea back on 2017-04-28.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Group administrator
Thu 07 Jul 2016 07:02:31 AM UTC, original submission:  

In Solaris, I got the bug report that lkbib dumps core with the following operation.
---
% touch ./a.i
% LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1 UMEM_OPTIONS=backend=mmap \
UMEM_DEBUG=default,firewall=1 /usr/bin/lkbib -p ./a
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
% pstack core
core 'core' of 1509:    /usr/bin/lkbib -p ./a
 00000000004094fa _1cRindex_search_itemEload6Mi_i () + 10a
 0000000000409ad0 _1cWmake_index_search_item6Fpkci_pnLsearch_item_ () + e0
 000000000040ea47 _1cLsearch_listIadd_file6Mpkci_v () + 27
 0000000000408614 main () + f4
 00000000004083a4 ???????? ()
---

Then it looks that this core dump occurs at the following point.
---
src/libs/libbib/index.cpp
;
int index_search_item::load(int fd)
:
  mtime = sb.st_mtime;
  int size = int(sb.st_size);                           <= size is 0
:
  map_addr = mapread(fd, size);
:
  else {
    addr = buffer = (char *)malloc(size);               <= malloc(0)
:
  header = (index_header )addr;                       <= Segv
---

From the specification of malloc() in the standard (ex, C11),
---
I can see C11 draft version from
   http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1548.pdf
p 347 7.22.3 Memory management functions
--
If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is
implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned, or the behavior
is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the returned pointer
shall not be used to access an object.
---
There is the possibility that it returns pointer shall not be used to access
an object on some platform. So I think it's nice to check the size of file
to avoid core dump.
---
--- groff-1.22.3/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp.org  2014-11-04 17:38:35.183524522 +0900
+++ groff-1.22.3/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp      2016-07-07 09:41:11.572149218 +0900
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@
   }
   mtime = sb.st_mtime;
   int size = int(sb.st_size);
+  if (size == 0) {
+    error("`%1' is an empty file", name);
+    return 0;
+  }
   char *addr;
   map_addr = mapread(fd, size);
   if (map_addr) {
---

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-06-15 gbranden CategoryNone Preprocessor refer
    2020-07-25 gbranden StatusReady for Merge Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4
    2017-04-28 carstenkunze StatusNone Ready for Merge
        Assigned toNone carstenkunze

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