Re: invalid read size 1 under valgrind

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 02/22/2012 12:57 PM, Austin Foxley wrote:
> I am developing a upnp client using gupnp (which uses libsoup) and ran
> into this apparent off-by-one when running under valgrind. This is
> with libsoup in fedora 16 (libsoup-2.36.1-2.fc16.x86_64). I took a
> look at the source but it wasn't obvious to me where the problem was.
> Hopefully someone more familiar with this code can make sense of this
> one.
> 
> ==21821== Invalid read of size 1
> ==21821==    at 0x3BB5E37A29: read_metadata (soup-message-io.c:325)

Yeah, the code is wrong there, it needs to be checking
io->read_meta_buf->len...

Is this causing a bug in your server, or just valgrind output?

-- Dan