GNU bug report logs - #16344
24.3; xml-parse-region stuck on specific input, uses lots of memory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Christopher Wellons <wellons <at> nullprogram.com>

Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 23:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Christopher Wellons <wellons <at> nullprogram.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; xml-parse-region stuck on specific input, uses lots of memory
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:39:30 -0500

The function `xml-parse-region' is never returning from parsing this
specific input. It's saturing a CPU core while using huge quantities of
memory. Fortunately it can be aborted with C-g.

    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert "<!----><x>< /x>")
      (xml-parse-region))

The trigger is a comment followed by at least one opening tag followed
by a stray less-than character. This is not valid XML due to that extra
space in the closing tag, but I'm expecting `xml-parse-region' to signal
an error in the case of invalid input rather than lock up Emacs.

Just for the sake of context, this issue was initially discovered here:

https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/issues/17
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 87 days ago.

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