On 24/10/20 11:14, Sunil Muthuswamy wrote:
> With upstream commit#ea1edcd7da1a "vl: relocate paths to data
> directories", the data dir logic was unified between POSIX &
> Win32. That patch moved to using 'get_relocated_path()', to
> find the data dir. There is a latent bug in get_relocated_path
> which can cause it to spin indefinitely, when the bind dir is
> the same as the passed in dir (in this case, it was the data
> dir).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunil...@microsoft.com>
> ---
> util/cutils.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
> index be4e43a9ef..c395974fab 100644
> --- a/util/cutils.c
> +++ b/util/cutils.c
> @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ char *get_relocated_path(const char *dir)
> bindir += len_bindir;
> dir = next_component(dir, &len_dir);
> bindir = next_component(bindir, &len_bindir);
> - } while (len_dir == len_bindir && !memcmp(dir, bindir, len_dir));
> + } while (len_dir && len_dir == len_bindir && !memcmp(dir, bindir,
> len_dir));
>
> /* Ascend from bindir to the common prefix with dir. */
> while (len_bindir) {
>
Queued, thanks.
Paolo
