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Re: segfault when merging

From: Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:16:37 -0400

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There were quite a few crash reports sent for TSVN which indicate a problem
> when merging.
>
> Until now I never really had a good crash dump and also no
> user to contact.
>
> But now that's changed:
> User report is here:
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=3023140
>
> Crash dump available here:
> https://www.crash-server.com/Problem.aspx?ClientID=tsvn&Login=Guest&ProblemID=6224
> (you should know the login data already, if not please contact my
> privately).
>
> Here's what I found so far:
> libsvn_client\merge.c, calculate_left_hand_side()
>
> /* Convert the absolute path with mergeinfo on it to a path relative
> to the session root. */
> SVN_ERR(svn_client__path_relative_to_root(&path_rel_to_root,
> ctx->wc_ctx, absolute_path,
> target_repos_root, FALSE,
> NULL, scratch_pool,
> iterpool));
> path_rel_to_session = svn_relpath_skip_ancestor(target_repos_rel_path,
> path_rel_to_root);
> SVN_ERR(svn_client__repos_location_segments(&segments,
> target_ra_session,
> path_rel_to_session,
> target_rev, target_rev,
> SVN_INVALID_REVNUM,
> ctx, scratch_pool));
>
> here, the 'path_rel_to_session' is set to NULL by the
> svn_relpath_skip_ancestor() call, which then leads to a NULL-pointer access
> later on in svn_client__repos_location_segments and further down in
> svn_ra_get_location_segments():
> SVN_ERR_ASSERT(*path != '/');
>
> where 'path' is the NULL pointer of path_rel_to_session.
>
> svn_relpath_skip_ancestor() returns NULL if the paths are not related or if
> the second argument string does not end with a '/'.

FWIW the second arg does not need to end with a '/' for a non-NULL return value.

> Gathering from the crash dump I can see that the second argument points to a
> file so it does not end with a '/' char.
>
> The two strings passed to svn_relpath_skip_ancestor() are according to the
> crash dump:
> somename/branches/dev62
> and
> shared/trunk/somefile.bas
>
> (somename and somefile used to protect the innocent).
>
> I hope this helps to figure out why the crash happens - I'm not familiar
> with the merge code so someone else needs to look at this.

I think I found the problem. The user mentioned he has "several
Externals as files, no folders, which may be worth mentioning as a
potential source of problem." I can produce a segfault during a merge
if the file externals in the reintegrate target have svn:mergeinfo set
on them. We should ignore these file externals as far as merge
tracking is concerned, but we aren't. Fixed on trunk in r1401915.

-- 
Paul T. Burba
CollabNet, Inc. -- www.collab.net -- Enterprise Cloud Development
Skype: ptburba
> Stefan
>
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Received on 2012-10-25 01:17:08 CEST

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