Description of problem:

[russell@tecra 2006-04-10--21.32.38]$ gdb attr
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(gdb) r -l 00002.jpg
Starting program: /usr/bin/attr -l 00002.jpg
Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xbdc000

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00c64217 in strncmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00c64217 in strncmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x0013cdf6 in api_unconvert (name=0xbfd93088 "selinux", linuxname=0xbfd96000
<Address 0xbfd96000 out of bounds>,
    irixflags=1) at libattr.c:72
#2  0x0013db9a in attr_list (path=0xbfd949b7 "00002.jpg", buffer=0x92b58e8 "\t",
buffersize=61440, flags=Variable "flags" is not available.
) at libattr.c:293
#3  0x08048c2f in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x6573002e
) at attr.c:225
#4  0x00c0f7e4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x08048871 in _start ()
(gdb)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

attr-2.4.28-1.2

How reproducible:

assign the following attributes, either one at a time or via setfattr --restore

# file: test
user.Beagle.AttrTime="20060415235938"
user.Beagle.Filter="003 Beagle.Filters.FilterJpeg"
user.Beagle.Fingerprint="02 0b2Nrmg38kuEi8NTLBSbSw"
user.Beagle.MTime="20060415233900"
user.Beagle.Uid="l35gMEVqb0SEdfxtym4Hig"
user.hello="hello world\012"
user.test="{'shore_rssi':0.0, 'shore_rssi_valid':False,
'01_motor_pwm_period':250, '01_temperature':0.0,'01_temperature_valid':False,
'01_motor1_enable':True, '01_motor1_throttle':0.0, '01_motor1_forward':False }"

Please note that user.test's value is on one line.