Package: gnat-4.4
Version: 4.4.3-1
Severity: normal
Under some conditions, using GNAT.Expect.Non_Blocking_Spawn in
conjunction with GNAT.Expect.Close leads to memory corruption.
Given the following small reproducer:
-- expect_test.adb
with Ada.Text_IO;
with GNAT.Expect;
with GNAT.OS_Lib;
with GNAT.Regpat;
procedure Expect_Test is
use GNAT.Expect;
Fd : Process_Descriptor;
Command : constant String := "./print_file";
Arg_List : GNAT.OS_Lib.Argument_List (1 .. 0);
Result : Expect_Match;
Match : GNAT.Regpat.Match_Array (0 .. 0);
begin
Non_Blocking_Spawn
(Descriptor => Fd,
Command => Command,
Args => Arg_List,
Buffer_Size => 128,
Err_To_Out => True);
Expect
(Descriptor => Fd,
Result => Result,
Regexps => Regexp_Array'
(+"END TESTS(.*)FAILED",
+"END TESTS(.*)PASSED"),
Matched => Match,
Timeout => 100000);
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Terminated");
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Expect_Out (Descriptor => Fd));
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Buffer len " &
Expect_Out (Descriptor => Fd)'Length'Img);
Close (Descriptor => Fd);
exception
when Process_Died =>
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Process died");
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Expect_Out (Descriptor => Fd));
Close (Descriptor => Fd);
end Expect_Test;
-- print_file.adb
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Print_File is
Filename : constant String := "output";
File : Ada.Text_IO.File_Type;
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Open (File => File,
Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File,
Name => Filename);
while not Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File (File => File) loop
delay 0.001;
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (File => File));
end loop;
Ada.Text_IO.Close (File => File);
end Print_File;
-- output
....................................................................
....................................................................
....................................................................
END TESTS...................................................: PASSED
--
Running the expect_test binary on amd64 results in memory corruption. As
it seems this only happens if the following conditions are met:
* the binary spawned produces more output than the expect buffer size
This should not matter because Non_Blocking_Spawn is expected to discard
old characters:
"The expect buffer associated with that process can contain at most
Buffer_Size characters. Older characters are simply discarded when this
buffer is full."
* the spawned binary uses file IO
* the code sleeps between the text output cycles
Tests:
* gnat 4.3.2-1.1 (lenny):
*** glibc detected *** ./obj/expect_test: double free or corruption
(!prev): 0x00000000006040a0 ***
* gnat 4.4.3-1 (unstable):
*** glibc detected *** ./obj/expect_test: free(): invalid next size
(fast): 0x0000000000605090 ***
The bug is also present with the tip of the gcc-4_4-branch (Subversion
revision 157750) from upstream (verified by Ludovic Brenta).
Full gdb backtrace with gnat 4.3.2-1.1 (lenny):
#0 0x00007f9502737ed5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x00007f95027393f3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x00007f9502774388 in __libc_message () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x00007f9502779928 in malloc_printerr () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x00007f950277ba36 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x00007f9502ee53a5 in <__gnat_free> (ptr=6308000) at s-memory.adb:117
No locals.
#6 0x00007f9502e670af in gnat.expect.close (descript...@0x7fffffffbe50) at
g-expect.adb:227
current_filter = <value optimized out>
next_filter = <value optimized out>
#7 0x0000000000402ff7 in _ada_expect_test ()
No locals.
The complete reproducer code can be downloaded at [1].
- reto
[1] - http://www.codelabs.ch/~reet/reproducers/gnat-expect.tar.bz2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnat-4.4 depends on:
ii gcc-4.4 4.4.3-5 The GNU C compiler
ii gnat-4.4-base 4.4.3-1 The GNU Compiler Collection (gnat
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libc6-dev 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-5 GCC support library
ii libgmp3c2 2:4.3.2+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libgnat-4.4 4.4.3-1 Runtime library for GNU Ada applic
ii libgnatprj4.4 4.4.3-1 GNU Ada Project Manager
ii libgnatvsn4.4 4.4.3-1 GNU Ada compiler version library
ii libmpfr1ldbl 2.4.2-3 multiple precision floating-point
gnat-4.4 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnat-4.4 suggests:
pn ada-reference-manual <none> (no description available)
pn gnat-4.4-doc <none> (no description available)
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