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Re: crash in latest release

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:25:12 +0200

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 09.10.2012 21:49, Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got the first crash report for the TSVN 1.7.10 release (svn 1.7.7).
>> Considering that the release is only an hour old, that indicates that
>> I will get a lot more of those...
>>
>> Problem in libsvn_subr/win32_crypto.c, function
>> windows_password_decrypter(svn_boolean_t *done, ...):
>>
>> ...
>> if (!done)
>> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
>>
>>
>> now here the check is for the pointer, not the actual bool value.
>> And if it's set to false, the pointer check is still true and the code
>> goes on instead of returning here.
>>
>> trunk and 1.7.x have the same bug, even though on trunk the code
>> before the if() is slightly different.
>>
>> I think this needs to change to:
>>
>> if (!*done)
>> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
>
> You're right. Fixed in r1396285 but I don't have a way to test it.
>
> I don't know why our test suite didn't catch this; it should trigger
> every time an encrypted password is read from disk on Windows. But maybe
> the testsuite doesn't even test that.

I doubt that it can be triggered by simply reading an encrypted
password from %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth\svn.simple, if that's what you
mean. Otherwise I would have definitely run into the crash (if not
during the testsuite, I would have seen it during my manual testing of
serf checkouts/exports, on my work pc).

-- 
Johan
Received on 2012-10-09 22:26:15 CEST

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