Do not dereference garbage pointers in sel_buf (doOut)#121
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Do not dereference garbage pointers in sel_buf (doOut)#121jamesjer wants to merge 1 commit intoastrand:masterfrom
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Worth noting that this solution solves the problem described in PR #117 , but in a way that doesn't break the pathing where sel_buf has data that needs to be freed. |
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We've been seeing segfaults in Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947285. An analysis of the bug is available at that URL. Briefly,
sel_bufcontains garbage bytes when the while loop is entered, and those bytes can be dereferenced or passed tofree().