Memcached segfault on increment

dormando dormando at rydia.net
Thu Jun 19 15:52:19 UTC 2008


Dustin Sallings wrote:
> 
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:26, Janusz Dziemidowicz wrote:
> 
>> I can confirm that this particular patch fixes the problem for me.
>> Without it, your fuzzer was crashing memcached on second run with
>> exactly the same stack trace from Valgrind as I've posted earlier.
>> With this patch, I was too unable to crash it. Thanks a lot:)
> 
> That's great news.  Thanks for the report.
> 
> Dormando:  Is this the assoc_find bug that was reported?  This crash was 
> within assoc_find, but the cause was entirely somewhere else.

That's entirely possible... This fix looks familiar though...

I'd encourage people who've had the assoc_find bug to patch their 1.2.5 
instances and try it out. I'll take a good stare at it the first chance 
I get, but I've never been able to reproduce that assoc_find bug in the 
wild :\

-Dormando


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