Re: crash in newlocale()

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Aug 12 08:38, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:35:39 +0200
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 11 21:18, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:29:28 +1000
> > > Tony Cook wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > While tracking down a crash in development versions of perl the boostrap
> > > > miniperl executable was crashing early in the build process:
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > I looked into this problem and found the access violation
> > > occurs at:
> > > newlib/libc/locale/newlocale.c
> > > @@ 188,7 @@ _newlocale_r (struct _reent *p, int category_mask, const char *locale,
> > > 	if (tmp_locale.lc_cat[i].buf == (const void *) -1)
> > > 	  {
> > > 	    tmp_locale.lc_cat[i].buf = base->lc_cat[i].buf;
> > > 	    base->lc_cat[i].ptr = base->lc_cat[i].buf = NULL; <-- Here!!!
> > > 	  }
> > > #endif /* __HAVE_LOCALE_INFO__ */
> > >       _freelocale_r (p, base);
> > > 
> > > This is because
> > > locale_t st = newlocale(LC_ALL_MASK, "C", (locale_t)0);
> > > returns
> > >   extern const struct __locale_t __C_locale;
> > >   return (struct __locale_t *) &__C_locale;
> > > , which is in the const area that cannot be modified.
> > > [...]
> > I think the right thing to do is to avoid freeing this data, if the base
> > locale is the C locale.  I sent a patch to cygwin-patches for review.
> > Can you please take a look?
> 
> LGTM. Thanks!

Thanks for checking!  I pushed the patch with addition release msg
to the 3.3 branch as well.


Corinna