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Re: String corruption problem?

From: Thomas Alan Wood <thom_at_collab.net>
Date: 2000-10-10 01:40:01 CEST

if you are having getting corrupted memory
try using ElectricFence i have found it very usefull for finding memory
errors.

ftp://ftp.perens.com/pub/ElectricFence/ElectricFence-2.1.tar.gz

On Sun Oct-08 03:52PM Joe Orton wrote:
> Am I right in saying the path corruption problem still persists even
> after Greg H's recent fix: 'make check' in libsvn_wc shows corruption
> for me?
>
> (I may be way off track here, apologies for wasting your time if I am ;)
>
> It seems that sometimes the data of a string is getting reallocated in a
> different pool than it was originally allocated it. This should be safe
> if the new pool is a parent of the original pool, but otherwise I think
> it will cause problems, since the string will get de-allocated sooner
> than it should.
>
> The patch below stores the original pool in the string structure, and
> detects when a realloc is attempted with a different pool and prints a
> warning. It also forces the realloc to occur using the *original* pool;
> this does actually fix the corruption problem which is encouraging.
>
> If this isn't completely bogus analysis, the output says the strings are
> getting re-allocated in a pool which is *not* a parent of the original
> pool, which is probably the cause of the corruption.
>
> todo: find the places where the wrong pool is passed to a string mutator
> function. It mightn't be a bad change to actually store the original
> pool in the string structure in any case, and re-allocate from there
> rather than taking a pool parameter; that would prevent this kind of
> problem.
>
> Index: include/svn_string.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/subversion/subversion/include/svn_string.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.35
> diff -u -r1.35 svn_string.h
> --- include/svn_string.h 2000/10/02 18:29:04 1.35
> +++ include/svn_string.h 2000/10/08 22:06:19
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
> #include <apr_pools.h> /* APR memory pools for everyone. */
> #include "svn_types.h"
>
> +#define SVN_STRING_DEBUG 1
>
>
> /* The svn_string_t data type. Pretty much what you expected. */
> @@ -63,6 +64,9 @@
> char *data; /* pointer to the bytestring */
> apr_size_t len; /* length of bytestring */
> apr_size_t blocksize; /* total size of buffer allocated */
> +#ifdef SVN_STRING_DEBUG
> + apr_pool_t *pool;
> +#endif
> } svn_string_t;
>
>
> Index: libsvn_string/svn_string.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/subversion/subversion/libsvn_string/svn_string.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.49
> diff -u -r1.49 svn_string.c
> --- libsvn_string/svn_string.c 2000/10/03 22:33:37 1.49
> +++ libsvn_string/svn_string.c 2000/10/08 22:06:21
> @@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
> new_string->data = (char *) apr_palloc (pool, size + 1);
> new_string->len = size;
> new_string->blocksize = size + 1;
> +#ifdef SVN_STRING_DEBUG
> + new_string->pool = pool;
> +#endif
>
> memcpy (new_string->data, bytes, size);
>
> @@ -158,7 +161,26 @@
> return (str->len == 0);
> }
>
> +int svn_pool_is_ancestor(apr_pool_t *a, apr_pool_t *b)
> +{
> + if (a == NULL) {
> + return 1;
> + }
> +#ifdef POOL_DEBUG
> + while (a->joined) {
> + a = a->joined;
> + }
> +#endif
> + while (b) {
> + if (a == b) {
> + return 1;
> + }
> + b = b->parent;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
>
> +
> void
> svn_string_ensure (svn_string_t *str,
> apr_size_t minimum_size,
> @@ -173,6 +195,20 @@
> while (str->blocksize < minimum_size)
> str->blocksize *= 2;
> }
> +
> +#ifdef SVN_STRING_DEBUG
> + if (pool != str->pool)
> + {
> + fprintf (stderr, "string realloc to different pool %p -> %p: ",
str->pool, pool);
> + if (svn_pool_is_ancestor(pool, str->pool)) {
> + fprintf(stderr, "ancestor.\n");
> + } else {
> + fprintf(stderr, "not ancestor.\n");
> + pool = str->pool;
> + }
> + }
> +#endif
> +
>
> str->data = (char *) my__realloc (str->data,
> str->len,

--
--thom wood
--415-908-4874
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:10 2006

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