Subject: Re: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences

From: Santiago <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:10:29 +0200

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:07:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> For what it's worth I can't reproduce this bug on Fedora 20 x86-64,
> even with valgrind and/or GCC -faddress=sanitize.  I'm using Fedora
> pcre-8.33-4.fc20.x86_64.
> 

Indeed, it was a debian-pcre-specific bug. New pcre package (1:8.31-3)
enables JIT regex compilation and solves the issue.

I'm updating grep's dependencies to close this bug in debian.

Regards,

Santiago