From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23331 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2011 07:45:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 23320 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Oct 2011 07:45:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO sourceware.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:44:51 +0000 From: "aj at suse dot de" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug libc/13303] strange crash in 64bit vsnprintf() Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:45:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: libc X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: aj at suse dot de X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: drepper.fsp at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Status CC Resolution Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00121.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13303 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |aj at suse dot de Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Andreas Jaeger 2011-10-17 07:44:33 UTC --- Your code is buggy, vsnprintf uses the args and you need to reset it. va_list args; va_start( args, params ); char buffer[0x4000]; unsigned int required = vsnprintf( buffer, sizeof(buffer), params, args ); Add va_end (args);va_start(args,params); here char *bigbuffer = (char*)malloc( required + 1 ); vsnprintf( bigbuffer, required + 1, params, args ); va_end( args ); -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.