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Bug 1344599 - zsh crash during line completion
Summary: zsh crash during line completion
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: zsh
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Jan Kepler
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-10 07:11 UTC by Marko Myllynen
Modified: 2016-11-03 23:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: zsh-5.0.2-24.el7
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Last Closed: 2016-11-03 23:03:27 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:2152 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE zsh bug fix update 2016-11-03 13:13:01 UTC

Description Marko Myllynen 2016-06-10 07:11:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
When testing some completions, zsh crashed. I managed to reproduce it a few times with the RHEL 7 build but never with the latest upstream code so perhaps it's fixed in upstream already.

I'm adding a (private) attachment, the core dump gzipped.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
zsh-5.0.2-22.el7.x86_64
Comment 3 Kamil Dudka 2016-06-10 10:37:01 UTC 
I believe the following off-by-one error fixes would prevent the crash:

https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/844e569b
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/61deff76

Unfortunately, the interesting values of local variables have been optimized out in your core dump.  Are you able to verify that the above fixes make the problem go away?
Comment 4 Marko Myllynen 2016-06-10 11:03:50 UTC 
(In reply to Kamil Dudka from comment #3)
> I believe the following off-by-one error fixes would prevent the crash:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/844e569b
> https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/61deff76
> 
> Unfortunately, the interesting values of local variables have been optimized
> out in your core dump.  Are you able to verify that the above fixes make the
> problem go away?

With zsh-5.0.2-23.el7.x86_64 and those patches I can't reproduce the crash anymore.

Thanks!
Comment 5 Kamil Dudka 2016-06-10 11:31:45 UTC 
Thanks for confirmation!  It would be good to have reliable steps to reproduce for QE to create an automatic regression test for this ... but I guess it will not be so easy?
Comment 6 Marko Myllynen 2016-06-10 11:45:32 UTC 
(In reply to Kamil Dudka from comment #5)
> Thanks for confirmation!  It would be good to have reliable steps to
> reproduce for QE to create an automatic regression test for this ... but I
> guess it will not be so easy?

Yes, it's a bit tricky, I used PCP upstream zsh completions (merged last night):

http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=blob;f=src/zshrc/_pcp

And then basically went thru the list of PCP commands (atop collectl dmcache free iostat ipcs lvmcache numastat shping summary uptime verify) when testing the completions, something like:

$ pcp atop <TAB>^W^W
$ pcp collectl <TAB>^W^W
$ pcp dmcache <TAB>^W^W

Seems that starting from end of the list of commands (i.e., verify) and going backwards it pretty reliably crashes around iostat or free (but then sometimes earlier, sometimes later).

Thanks.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 23:03:27 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2152.html
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