Segmentation fault in notmuch search --format=json
Ben Gamari
bgamari.foss at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 22:52:52 PDT 2012
It seems some messages trigger a segmentation fault in
`do_search_threads()`. It appears the problem occurs (at least) when
`authors` is NULL.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000415aa3 in json_string (sp=0x646c70, val=0x0) at sprinter-json.c:121
121 json_string_len (sp, val, strlen (val));
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000415aa3 in json_string (sp=0x646c70, val=0x0)
at sprinter-json.c:121
#1 0x000000000041084b in do_search_threads (format=0x646c70, query=0x64bb70,
sort=NOTMUCH_SORT_NEWEST_FIRST, output=OUTPUT_SUMMARY, offset=0, limit=-1)
at notmuch-search.c:131
#2 0x0000000000411361 in notmuch_search_command (ctx=0x6361b0, argc=3,
argv=0x7fffffffdfb0) at notmuch-search.c:405
#3 0x0000000000409e22 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffdfa8) at notmuch.c:294
(gdb) up
#1 0x000000000041084b in do_search_threads (format=0x646c70, query=0x64bb70,
sort=NOTMUCH_SORT_NEWEST_FIRST, output=OUTPUT_SUMMARY, offset=0, limit=-1)
at notmuch-search.c:131
131 format->string (format, authors);
(gdb) list
126 format->map_key (format, "matched");
127 format->integer (format, matched);
128 format->map_key (format, "total");
129 format->integer (format, total);
130 format->map_key (format, "authors");
131 format->string (format, authors);
132 format->map_key (format, "subject");
133 format->string (format, subject);
134 }
135
(gdb)
It seems that the message in question was produced by a script I use to
feed RSS feeds into notmuch so while I wouldn't doubt that there are few
cases where `authors` should be NULL, it would be nice if notmuch
handled this case with a bit more grace.
Cheers,
- Ben
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