Bug 166233 – find . -uid \! 99 # segmentation fault

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rafal Wijata 2007-02-10 17:58:41 UTC]

I know it's wrong syntax, but I entered that by mistake and received SEGV.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
SIGSEGV

Expected Results:  
Invalid argument

Verified on two different machines. Compiled with
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT"
maybe the -O3 caused the problem, but on other distributions I'm getting invaild arg.
Please verify.

[Comment 1 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-02-10 18:03:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I know it's wrong syntax, but I entered that by mistake and received SEGV.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Actual Results:  
> SIGSEGV
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Invalid argument
> 
> Verified on two different machines. Compiled with
> CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG
> -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT"
> maybe the -O3 caused the problem, but on other distributions I'm getting
> invaild arg.

Happens here too with CFLAGS="-O2 -g -ggdb2 -pipe".

[Comment 2 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-02-10 18:04:00 UTC]

Reassigning to base-system.

[Comment 3 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-02-10 18:34:02 UTC]

Created attachment 109797 [details, diff]
findutils-4.3.2-invalid-args.patch

findutils should check pointers for NULL before trying to dereference them... With this patch, I get a proper error message:

  find: invalid argument `!' to `-uid'

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-02-10 18:42:05 UTC]

weak, i just finished writing that patch ;P

most other distros are using findutils-4.2.x which doesnt have this problem

fixed in 4.3.2-r1

[Comment 5 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-06-04 20:55:11 UTC]

*** Bug 180830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-06-04 20:56:43 UTC]

SpanKY: you dropped the patch though it's not fixed yet, would you please add it back?

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2007-06-11 05:42:16 UTC]

4.3.7 seems to have this fixed