GNU bug report logs - #18806
grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 18806-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, 18806-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>
Subject: Re: bug#18806: grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without
 displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:38:19 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Thanks for looking into this.  I added that test case, but took a 
more-conservative approach to fixing the bug, by disabling the 
optimization that's causing this problem; please see attached patches.  
The optimization was a hack anyway, and these bugs suggest that it's not 
a hack worth keeping.

[0001-grep-fix-grep-P-crash.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-tests-add-test-for-grep-P-fix.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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