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[perl #111610] Trouble with XS-APItest/t/clone-with-stack.t
authorMichael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 03:29:54 +0000 (20:29 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 04:59:08 +0000 (21:59 -0700)
commit4a808ed163df1057031bc6d085300fe1ef6f57d2
treedb9b7cfea1f1c07540bb3aae29ce93418812f738
parentd5db65c043a15d90a511bcd6b528dd7925d0ffa0
[perl #111610] Trouble with XS-APItest/t/clone-with-stack.t

I ran into a bit of a problem when building perl-5.16.0.
'make test' showed a segfault in ext/XS-APItest/t/clone-with-stack.t.
It seems to be caused by accessing already freed memory, it
segfaults because I have MALLOC_PERTUBE_ set, thus glibc fills
freed memory with some value.

Digging deeper, it seems like perl_clone() does not fix
the cx's blk_oldcop element when doing context cloning, thus
blk_oldcop still points to PL_compiling in the old interp--the
calling scope for the BEGIN block being the compilation of the
code surrounding it--and the POPBLOCK done in leavesub will copy
the data from the old interp to PL_curcop.

After fixing this, it still crashed because interp_dup->Iop was
zero after the runops_standard() call (which is probably
correct as the end of the BEGIN block was reached). So I
also added an if statement that checks the pointer.
ext/XS-APItest/APItest.xs
sv.c