Bug 455044

Summary: Using -q on a kernel tree will not find ESPIPE
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eric Paris <eparis>
Component: cscopeAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Eric Paris 2008-07-11 16:56:52 UTC
Description of problem:

[root@paris ~]# rpm -q cscope
cscope-15.6-2
This is actually cscope-15.6-2.fc10.src.rpm rebuilt on RHEL5 x86_64 (where the
same problem exists)

Pull and upstream kernel tree
run cscope -R -k -q
look for the global symbol ESPIPE
UTTER FAIL!

run cscope -R -k
look for the global symbol ESPIPE
WORKS!

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:32:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2009-05-06 08:30:15 UTC
Just out of curiosity, have you tried the same on i386 / using 32-bit build?  Doing some read through invlib.c, I've spotted this:

  logicalblk.invblk[3+2*numinvitems++] = iteminfo.packword[0];
  logicalblk.invblk[2+2*numinvitems] = iteminfo.packword[1];

If numinvitems is e.g. 30, iteminfo metadata is written to indexes 63 and 64.  Later in the code, one can see:

  holditems = numinvitems;
  [ ... ]
    iteminfo.packword[0] =
      logicalblk.invblk[--holditems * 2 + (sizeof(long) - 1)];

This seems to be an attempt to read what was previously written.  Constant 3 in the write is probably expected to be the same as (sizeof(long) - 1)?  Though that is not true on modern 64 bit systems, so this accesses index 67 which may be uninitialized or have some outdated info.  I failed to build a good enough understanding of the data file format, so not sure what may be consequences.

Another unrelated issue: in ENTRY, size is defined as unsigned char.  strlen(thisterm) is written to size.  If thisterm is rather long (probably unlikely in normal code), len gets silently truncated / wrapped.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:14:45 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
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Comment 5 Neil Horman 2009-12-18 13:39:40 UTC
Eric, do me a favor, try this again on a kernel tree, this seems to be working for me.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 12:02:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

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Comment 7 Neil Horman 2010-07-13 15:07:54 UTC
eric, did you ever try this again?

Comment 8 Neil Horman 2010-11-29 11:53:11 UTC
closing due to no response