From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-apply segfault.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:41:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210194127.GM22611@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602101120440.19172@g5.osdl.org>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:22:46AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0x0000003287f73474 in memset () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #1 0x0000003287f6c92a in calloc () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #2 0x0000000000407399 in read_cache () at read-cache.c:537
>
> Ouch. Looks like malloc heap corruption.
Indeed. Self-inflicted in this case.
> > git on hera is 1.1.6-1
> Can you try running "valgrind" on it? That should show what corrupts the
> heap.
Actually it's a glibc bug (fixed last September, but not backported to older releases).
Jakub is working on an FC4 update.
(It also only hits you if you're a loony and have something like
export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$(($RANDOM % 255 + 1))
in your ~/.bashrc)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-10 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 18:37 git-apply segfault Dave Jones
2006-02-10 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-10 19:41 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2007-10-17 10:00 Andy Parkins
2007-10-17 11:10 ` Pierre Habouzit
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