Thomas Alan Wood <thom@collab.net> writes:
> if you are having getting corrupted memory
> try using ElectricFence i have found it very usefull for finding memory
> errors.
Thanks! Next time I will give it a try.
> 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