Bug 302912 – net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.2 - Fix for rrdcgi segmentation faults

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jens Ott 2010-01-30 21:11:19 UTC]

Find attached an ebuild including the patch from upstream-trac to fix the segmentation-fault which occurs on usage of  RRD::TIME::LAST

See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/ticket/251 for reference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use RRD::TIME::LAST in a rrdcgi template
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Actual Results:  
segfault

Expected Results:  
creation of output

[Comment 1 Jens Ott 2010-01-30 21:12:58 UTC]

Created attachment 217943 [details, diff]
Patch to fix the problem

This is the patch supplied from upstream, slightly modified to match the epatch pathes.

[Comment 2 Jens Ott 2010-01-30 21:14:55 UTC]

Created attachment 217944 [details]
Ebuild applying the patch

Ebuild applying patch from attachment 217943 [details, diff]

[Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-02-09 16:27:13 UTC]

Upstream patch differs from the one attached here:
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/changeset/2013
Have you tried this ^^ patch?

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-05-26 23:16:33 UTC]

Fixed in 1.4.3.

<http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/CHANGES>:

RRDtool 1.4.3 - 2010-03-22
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[...]
* rrd_cgi: make sure that (argv-1)[0] points to something sensible ... 
  hack to undo the damage caused by a senseless optimization. see bug #251
  -- tobi oetiker