Re: [Bug-tar] Circular symlinks lead to segfault

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Friday 13 of November 2015 15:34:09 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Friday 27 of March 2015 10:24:39 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Paul Eggert <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > 
> > > Thanks for reminding me.  Sergey, have you had a chance to look at the
> > > latest iteration of that patch?
> > 
> > It slipped my attention somehow.  I'm revising it now.
> 
> Any progress on this?
> 
>   $ mkdir test-segfault
>   $ cd test-segfault/
>   $ mkdir d
>   $ ln -s ../d d/d
>   $ tar chf /dev/null d
>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Fix was proposed here:
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg04542.html
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-07/msg00013.html

Uh, not applicable patches.  I've updated those and now re-attaching.
There are two unexpected passes I need to look at yet.

Pavel

0001-tar-avoid-recursion-in-directory-traversal.patch
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0002-create-do-not-segfault-with-dereference.patch
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testsuite.log.xz
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