possible je-malloc issue
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Aug 3 00:15:57 UTC 2012
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:36:35PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:21:20PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote:
> > On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > (gdb) print *ptr
> > > Attempt to dereference a generic pointer.
> > > (gdb) up 1
> > > #5 0x48164b7d in XFree (data=0x80f58e0) at XlibInt.c:1701
> > > 1701 XlibInt.c: No such file or directory.
> > > (gdb) print *data
> > > Attempt to dereference a generic pointer.
> > > (gdb) up 1
> > > #6 0x080c4f2f in FlocaleFreeNameProperty (ptext=0xbfbfcfb4) at Flocale.c:2363
> > > 2363 Flocale.c: No such file or directory.
> > > (gdb) print *ptext
> > > $5 = {name = 0x80f58e0 "Untitled", name_list = 0x0}
> >
> > jemalloc is asserting that the page which contains 0x80f58e0 is allocated
> > according to the containing chunk's page map, but the chunk header isn't
> > even mapped, and the attempted read causes a segfault. This is almost
> > certainly a result of calling free() with a bogus pointer.
> >
>
> I suspect, but cannot prove it yet, that ptext->name points at
> a static buffer. I'm trying to understand the code now. The
> failure starts in
>
> void FlocaleFreeNameProperty(FlocaleNameString *ptext)
> {
> if (ptext->name_list != NULL)
> {
> if (ptext->name != NULL && ptext->name != *ptext->name_list)
> XFree(ptext->name);
> XFreeStringList(ptext->name_list);
> ptext->name_list = NULL;
> }
> else if (ptext->name != NULL)
> {
> XFree(ptext->name);
> }
> ptext->name = NULL;
>
> return;
> }
>
> In the code the XFree(ptext->name) appears protected by the check
> for a NULL pointer, but it appears that 0x80f58e0 is invalid. I
> don't know how to check for an non-NULL invalid pointer. I suppose
> I can hack fvwm to leak memory at worse.
>
I think I found the problem in fvwm/add_window.c
one finds the global entity
char NoName[] = "Untitled"; /* name if no name in XA_WM_NAME */
then later in fvwm/events.c one finds
FlocaleNameString new_name = { NoName, NULL };
At some point FlocaleFreeNameProperty is called to
free the FlocaleNameString that contains NoName,
and XFree() is not happy.
--
Steve
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