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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] revert: Introduce HEAD, TODO files to persist state, plan
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:44:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=i2igTyusmVf8155VcFfVLQ==u3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110602142933.GA32487@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Jeff,

Jeff King writes:
> Doesn't lock_file handle multiple locking already via the on_list parameter?
>
>    $ grep -A2 on_list lockfile.c
>            if (!lk->on_list) {
>                    lk->next = lock_file_list;
>                    lock_file_list = lk;
>                    lk->on_list = 1;
>            }
>
> However, I think you have a bigger problem, which is that you are
> allocating the lock_file on the stack in persist_todo and persist_head.
> So by the time the atexit() handler is called, this storage has gone
> away and you are just reading random data (not to mention that it also
> should be zero-initialized before being passed to lock_file).

Right. Thanks for the excellent pointer. I was struggling to see what
was wrong on GDB; little did I realize that I was viewing nonsense. I
solved the problem by making the lock_file variables static.

Thanks again, and sorry for the nonsense.

-- Ram

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-08 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 14:16 [PATCH v3 00/10] Sequencer Foundations Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 01/10] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 02/10] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-26  9:34     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 03/10] revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 23:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 04/10] revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 05/10] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 06/10] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 07/10] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 08/10] revert: Introduce HEAD, TODO files to persist state, plan Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 09/10] revert: Implement parsing --continue, --abort and --skip Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 14:17 ` [PATCH 10/10] revert: Implement --abort processing Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-25 23:15 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Sequencer Foundations Junio C Hamano
2011-05-26 15:53 ` [PATCH v4 " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 01/10] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 02/10] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 03/10] revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 04/10] revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 05/10] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 06/10] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 07/10] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 08/10] revert: Introduce HEAD, TODO files to persist state, plan Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 16:11     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-26 16:26       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 17:05         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 21:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-01 15:28       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-01 19:31         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-02 12:53           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-02 14:29             ` Jeff King
2011-06-08 13:14               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 09/10] revert: Implement parsing --continue, --abort and --skip Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 15:53   ` [PATCH 10/10] revert: Implement --abort processing Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-26 19:13   ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Sequencer Foundations Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27  7:22     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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