Bug 68979 - Infinite loop in analyze_tree() in glibc on Limbo
Summary: Infinite loop in analyze_tree() in glibc on Limbo
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-16 18:29 UTC by Volodymyr M. Lisivka
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-15 21:55:19 UTC
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Description Volodymyr M. Lisivka 2002-07-16 18:29:12 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020611

Description of problem:
When mc try to compile regular expressions it crased in function regcomp().
Backtrace shows few thousands calls to function analyze_tree() from
/lib/i686/libc.6.so.


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run mc
2. Press F4
3. or Press F5 and Ok.


Actual Results:  mc crased


Additional info:
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2002-07-18 08:41:02 UTC 
Please try glibc-2.2.90-15 and mc-4.5.55-9 from rawhide. There were bugs
on both sides (glibc and mc) wrt. regex handling.
Comment 2 Alan Cox 2002-12-15 21:55:19 UTC 
Works for me in 8.0
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