From eef7ff7eca9821956d4648680cec365fc3db6d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sanjoy Mahajan Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:27:52 +1900 Subject: [PATCH] segfault if notmuch-show query has spurious .. (w/ v0.17) --- 2f/7405392010ae43a7ff3dfac13d7116421f48b6 | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2f/7405392010ae43a7ff3dfac13d7116421f48b6 diff --git a/2f/7405392010ae43a7ff3dfac13d7116421f48b6 b/2f/7405392010ae43a7ff3dfac13d7116421f48b6 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4320689af --- /dev/null +++ b/2f/7405392010ae43a7ff3dfac13d7116421f48b6 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBE9431FBD + for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:33:25 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id nflttG2lkWvr for ; + Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:33:20 -0800 (PST) +X-Greylist: delayed 324 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; + Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:33:20 PST +Received: from EXCAS01.olin.edu (smtp.olin.edu [208.91.53.40]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6770431FAF + for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:33:20 -0800 (PST) +Received: from approx.mit.edu (71.126.235.4) by smtps.olin.edu (10.1.15.25) + with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.342.0; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:27:55 + -0500 +Received: from sanjoy by approx.mit.edu with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from + ) id 1W5nXk-0007TY-JY for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; + Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:27:52 -0500 +From: Sanjoy Mahajan +To: +Subject: segfault if notmuch-show query has spurious .. (w/ v0.17) +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (i486-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:27:52 -0500 +Message-ID: <871u00oimv.fsf@approx.mit.edu> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:33:25 -0000 + +Probably because I kept using notmuch-emacs .elc code from 0.16 after +notmuch got upgraded to 0.17 (I rarely restart emacs), my Emacs +interface to notmuch started generating queries that caused Xapian +exceptions and segfaults. Here's one: + + $ notmuch show '( FW: Student Employment Orie.. )' + A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation + Query string was: ( FW: Student Employment Orie.. ) + Segmentation fault + +Restarting Emacs stopped those queries, so I don't think that's an +issue. However, notmuch itself probably should not segfault, even if +Xapian gets confused by the .. in the query (making it look like a date +range). + +This is on Debian/i386 with the notmuch 0.17-3 packages. +-- +-Sanjoy + + +Save Long Wharf Park in Boston Harbor! + + +Six reasoning tools to make hard problems easy. -- 2.26.2