[php-maint] Bug#496795: php5: Segfaults on infinite recursion

[Gergely Nagy]

Package: php5
Version: 5.2.6-2
Severity: normal

While fiddling around with one project, I accidentally made an infinite
recursion, and PHP went away with a segmentation fault.

A few minutes later, I could reduce the problem to the following snippet:

<?php
function foo () { foo (); }
foo ();
?>

This makes php segfault somewhere in the zend engine. The backtrace here
is rather long, and shares a strong resemblance to the backtrace posted
in #405067.

It should be very easy to reproduce anyway.

Even though infinite recursions are bad, and should be avoided, I
believe that php should handle it a wee-bit better. Perl for example
just eats up all resources it can, until killed, which would be the
expected behaviour, I think.

-- 
Gergely Nagy <algernon at bonehunter.rulez.org>