[leafnode-list] applyfilter crashes in leafnode 2?

[Matthias Andree]

Robert Marshall schrieb am 2004-05-09:

> I was trying applyfilter following suggestions in alt.os.linux.mandrake
> and it appears to consistently crash on me
> 
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x400db883 in strlen () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0804e294 in mycritstrdup (f=0x0, l=134568900, source=0x0, message=0x0)
>     at critmem_strdup.c:19
> #2  0x0804ccf6 in delete_article (mid=0x0, action=0x8055bc4 "applyfilter", 
>     past_action=0x8055bbb "filtered") at artutil.c:276
> #3  0x08049fc8 in applyfilter (name=0x8312023 "362220", g=0x401cf340, myfilter=0x805b250, 
>     dryrun=0, kept=0xbffffa7c, deleted=0xbffffa80) at applyfilter.c:203
> #4  0x0804a5d3 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffffae4) at applyfilter.c:405
> #5  0x40078c57 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> 
> Looks a very strange line number in mycritstrdup, I assume memory is being
> trashed somewhere? I've tried it on a variey of groups, removed the filter
> I added and it always crashes

Looks like a corrupt article, and I need to reproduce this to fix it
properly. Can you run (as root or news):

tar -cf - `find /var/spool/news -name 362220 -print` | gzip -cv9 >arts.tar.gz

and mail me the resulting arts.tar.gz file off-list? Thanks.

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