Re: xine_init() causes segfault in libselinux

[Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>]

Vikram Noel Ambrose wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I've managed to find a repeatable segfault scenario with some very basic 
> libxine code.
> 
> libxine if anyone doesnt know is a very popular audio backend for many 
> userspace applications in KDE and Gnome.
> 
> Here is the code: http://en.pastebin.ca/1376316
> 
> The code basically opens a file stream with no Audio or Video drivers, 
> and just reads the meta data from the file (title information), and then 
> quits.
> 
> A gdb backtrace and valgrind have led me to believe there is a fault in 
> libselinux.
> 
> Though this could very possibly be a fault in libxine, I'd have thought 
> libselinux would be more resilient to such issues. Especially since 
> glibc didnt complain.
> 
> If you would like to run this test code, simply install xine-lib-devel 
> and then compile the test program.
> 
> $ gcc -lxine -g test.c
> $ ./a.out
> 
> I'm using an up-to-date FC10 x86_64 installation. 
> 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
> 
> 

I can't reproduce this on an x86 F10 install with either the latest libselinux 
or trunk libselinux. Can you try installing a libselinux from trunk with DEBUG=1 
make flag so the backtrace will give more information?

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