GNU bug report logs - #16140
24.3.50; GC tries to free invalid font objects

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 16414, 17071, 17602, 17771

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.3.91, 24.4.50

Fixed in version 24.3.93

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16140: 24.3.50; GC tries to free invalid font objects
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:00:12 +0400

On 12/14/2013 01:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> When I originally saw this, fnt->driver was NULL.  I added protection
> against that, but then it crashed with non-NULL but still invalid
> pointer.  Such pointers should never end up in font objects, so how
> come they do?

Hm...I've tried bloat-font quite a lot with my MinGW build, but didn't
see anything similar.  Anyway, r115541 has an extra check for valid
font driver pointer in font objects; if you hit this eassert, please
let me know.

Dmitry
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