GNU bug report logs - #16872
`date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'` crashes

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 16872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16872: `date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'` crashes
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:11:26 +0000

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On 02/25/2014 08:50 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 08:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> as reported by Bertrand Jacquin, this crashes:
>> $ date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007ffff7ab1014 in __GI___libc_free (mem=0x7fffffffc8b0) at malloc.c:2942
>> #1  0x0000000000406730 in parse_datetime (result=result <at> entry=0x7fffffffcab0, p=<optimized out>, p <at> entry=0x7fffffffd04a "TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" \"00:00 + 1 hour\"", now=<optimized out>, now
>> @entry=0x0) at ./lib/parse-datetime.y:1307
>> #2  0x00000000004023c7 in main (argc=0x3, argv=0x7fffffffcc68) at src/date.c:522
>>
>> that's 15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e i happened to have already
>> built, but seems to reproduce easily across older versions.
>> -mike
>>
> 
> Ugh. Reproducible here.
> I'll fix up the issue in gnulib.

Proposed patch attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[date-tz-crash.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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