I'm having some trouble with segmentation faults. I get the following error from valgrind --tool=addrcheck
==2086== Invalid write of size 4
==2086== at 0x342506B9: nodePush (in /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
==2086== by 0x34263949: xmlSAX2StartElementNs (in /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
==2086== by 0x34255AD7: (within /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
==2086== by 0x3425A049: xmlParseElement (in /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
==2086== Address 0x34546510 is 0 bytes after a block of size 0 alloc'd
==2086== at 0x3414A23C: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==2086== by 0x3414AC2B: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:189)
==2086== by 0x342506E3: nodePush (in /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
==2086== by 0x34263949: xmlSAX2StartElementNs (in /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16)
The relevant code segment is:
// Set up a function to report errors
char *xmlErrors = new char[1024];
xmlErrors[0] = '\0';
xmlParserCtxt *context = xmlNewParserCtxt();
context->sax->error = handleXMLError;
context->sax->fatalError = handleXMLError;
context->userData = xmlErrors;
/* Parse the file and get the DOM */
xmlDoc *doc = xmlCtxtReadFile( context, dropFile.c_str(), NULL, 0 );
If I don't set context->userData then the crash goes away.
Is there anything obviously stupid in that code, or a known bug that I'm tripping over because my libxml2 library is too old?
Neil Youngman
Neil Youngman
Developer
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