Bug#681204: snappy-player: SIGSEGV if recently viewed URIs list is empty

George Danchev danchev at spnet.net
Wed Jul 11 12:22:52 UTC 2012


Source: snappy-player
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch

Dear Maintainer,

$ cat ~/.config/snappy/history 
$

$ snappy -r
These are the recently viewed URIs: 

Segmentation fault

$ rm -rf .config/snappy/
george at sid:~$ snappy -r
These are the recently viewed URIs: 

Segmentation fault


george at sid:/tmp/snappy-player-0.2/src$ gdb ./snappy 
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Reading symbols from /tmp/snappy-player-0.2/src/snappy...done.
(gdb) run -r 
Starting program: /tmp/snappy-player-0.2/src/snappy -r
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
These are the recently viewed URIs: 


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
process_args (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe3f8,
file_list=file_list at entry=0x7fffffffe2a0, 
    fullscreen=fullscreen at entry=0x7fffffffe2d8,
secret=secret at entry=0x7fffffffe2dc, context=context at entry=0x6108b0)
    at snappy.c:96
    96          for (c = 0; recent[c] != NULL; c++) {
    (gdb) list 
    91
    92          g_print ("These are the recently viewed URIs: \n\n");
    93
    94          recent = get_recently_viewed ();
    95
    96          for (c = 0; recent[c] != NULL; c++) {
    97            if (c < 9)
    98              g_print ("0%d: %s \n", c + 1, recent[c]);
    99            else
    100             g_print ("%d: %s \n", c + 1, recent[c]);
    (gdb) p recent 
    $1 = (gchar **) 0x0
    (gdb)


The attached patch fixes this for me. Please fix the diff headers
when BTS bug number entry is returned (add to series as well).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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