Description of problem: Seg faults in a large program have been traced to the 
regex function of glibc using the Electric Fence memory checker.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.4-8

How reproducible:

  Compile attached test program:
    g++ -g -o tr test_regex_match.cc -lefence

  Run program:
    tr 1

Actual results: =====>
WARNING(test_regex_match.cc,16): regex empty!
WARNING(test_regex_match.cc,19): test string empty!

  Electric Fence 2.2.0 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce>

ElectricFence Aborting: Allocating 0 bytes, probably a bug.
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
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Expected results: =====>
WARNING(test_regex_match.cc,18): regex empty!
WARNING(test_regex_match.cc,22): test string empty!
Normal end.
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Additional info:  Ouput from stack backtrace (`gdb tr core`): =====>
tomtomjr 1% gdb tr core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x970000
Core was generated by `./tr 1'.
Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.

warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error

Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libefence.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x00970402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00970402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x009b6456 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x006e0e77 in Page_Create () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0
#3  0x006e1177 in EF_Abort () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0
#4  0x006e095a in memalign () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0
#5  0x006e0a93 in malloc () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0
#6  0x00a3a1dd in re_compile_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x00a3a81f in regcomp () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8  0x08048b84 in regex_match (regex=@0xbfb779bc, s=@0xbfb779b4, 
case_sensitive=true)
    at test_regex_match.cc:34
#9  0x08048e2f in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfb77a74) at test_regex_match.cc:135
(gdb) quit
tomtomjr 2%
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