Andrew and others,
I’ve just found a bug in libCom/macLib. I had
a long command line (dbLoadRecords(…)) in a startup script, with several
macros in it. When the string is expanded it is more than 256 characters, so
macEnvExpand has to go through an extra iteration. When it calls free(dest),
Windows (win32-x86 architecture) detects heap corruption. It says that values
past the end of “dest” have been modified. This almost certainly
means that macExpandString has written past the end of “dest”. I
suspect it is by 1 character.
To track it down I set handle->debug=3 in
macEnvExpand, and got the following output.
dbLoadRecords("J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6/ADApp/Db/NDOverlay.template",
"P=13SIM1:,R=Over1:, PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
macExpandString(
J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6/ADApp/Db/NDOverlay.template, maxlen = 256 )
trans-> entry = 0012FC60, level = 0, maxlen =
256, discard = F, rawval =
J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6/ADApp/Db/NDOverlay.template
<-trans level = 0, length = 59, value =
J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6/ADApp/Db/NDOverlay.template
macExpandString() -> 59
macDeleteHandle()
macExpandString(
dbLoadRecords("$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1,
SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1"),
maxlen = 256 )
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen =
256, discard = F, rawval = dbLoadRecords("$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1,
SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen =
241, rawval =
$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1,
SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,POR
T=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval = AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1,
SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 13, value =
AREA_DETECTOR
lookup-> level = 0, name = AREA_DETECTOR, special
= 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = AREA_DETECTOR, result
= 010182A8
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
241, discard = T, rawval = J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6
<-trans level = 1, length = 31, value =
J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6
<-refer level = 0, length = 31, value =
J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen =
176, rawval = $(PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1, SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval = PREFIX),R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1, SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 6, value = PREFIX
lookup-> level = 0, name = PREFIX, special = 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = PREFIX, result =
01038698
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
176, discard = T, rawval = 13SIM1:
<-trans level = 1, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-refer level = 0, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen =
122, rawval =
$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV
,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval =
PREFIX)ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 6, value = PREFIX
lookup-> level = 0, name = PREFIX, special = 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = PREFIX, result =
01038698
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
122, discard = T, rawval = 13SIM1:
<-trans level = 1, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-refer level = 0, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen = 96,
rawval =
$(PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval = PREFIX)ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 6, value = PREFIX
lookup-> level = 0, name = PREFIX, special = 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = PREFIX, result =
01038698
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen = 96,
discard = T, rawval = 13SIM1:
<-trans level = 1, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-refer level = 0, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen = 69,
rawval = $(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval =
PREFIX)ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=$(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 6, value = PREFIX
lookup-> level = 0, name = PREFIX, special = 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = PREFIX, result =
01038698
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen = 69,
discard = T, rawval = 13SIM1:
<-trans level = 1, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-refer level = 0, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
refer-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 0, maxlen = 41,
rawval = $(PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen =
256, discard = T, rawval = PREFIX)ROI1:SizeY_RBV,PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
<-trans level = 1, length = 6, value = PREFIX
lookup-> level = 0, name = PREFIX, special = 0
<-lookup level = 0, name = PREFIX, result = 01038698
trans-> entry = 0012FD10, level = 1, maxlen = 41,
discard = T, rawval = 13SIM1:
<-trans level = 1, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-refer level = 0, length = 7, value =
13SIM1:
<-trans level = 0, length = 256, value =
dbLoadRecords("J:/epics/devel/areaDetector-1-6/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template","P=13SIM1:,R=Over1:1:,NAME=ROI1,
SHAPE=1,O=Over1:,XPOS=13SIM1:ROI1:MinX_RBV,YPOS=13SIM1:ROI1:MinY_RBV,XSIZE=13SIM1:ROI1:SizeX_RBV,YSIZE=13SIM1:ROI1:SizeY_RBV,
PORT=OVER1,ADDR=0,T
macExpandString() -> 256
I have not digested the output. To try to work
around the problem, I modified the line:
n =
macExpandString(handle, str, dest, destCapacity);
to be
n =
macExpandString(handle, str, dest, destCapacity-1);
i.e. to tell macExpandString
that the buffer is 1 character smaller than it really is.
Index: macLib/macEnv.c
===================================================================
RCS file:
/net/phoebus/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/base/src/libCom/macLib/macEnv.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2.2.6
diff -u -r1.2.2.6 macEnv.c
--- macLib/macEnv.c 23 Apr
2009 18:49:39 -0000 1.2.2.6
+++ macLib/macEnv.c 30
Mar 2010 14:23:26 -0000
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
*/
free(dest);
dest =
mallocMustSucceed(destCapacity, "macEnvExpand");
- n =
macExpandString(handle, str, dest, destCapacity);
+ n =
macExpandString(handle, str, dest, destCapacity-1);
} while (n >=
(destCapacity - 1));
if (n < 0) {
That fixed the problem, but
I think that probably the correct solution is to find where macExpandString is
writing past the end of dest and fixing that.
Mark