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Entry  03 Jul 2019, Lukas Gerritzen, Bug Report, mhttpd crashes when including nonexistent script in msequencer 
    Reply  10 Jul 2019, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, mhttpd crashes when including nonexistent script in msequencer 
Message ID: 1609     Entry time: 10 Jul 2019     In reply to: 1587
Author: Stefan Ritt 
Topic: Bug Report 
Subject: mhttpd crashes when including nonexistent script in msequencer 
The bug has been fixed. It was actually in the mxml library. So you have to go to the midas/mxml 
subdirectory and update that one via "git pull origin master".

Stefan

> Hi,
> the subject line describes the project already
> Suppose you have a file foo.msl. Somewhere in the file, you have the line 
> INCLUDE bar.msl
> 
> Once you click save in the sequencer page, mhttpd crashes:
> $ mhttpd
> free(): double free detected in tcache 2
> [1]    27590 abort (core dumped)  mhttpd
> 
> 
> GDB helps shed some light on the problem:
> 
> #0  0x00007ffff76b057f in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00007ffff769a895 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00007ffff76f39d7 in __libc_message () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #3  0x00007ffff76fa2ec in malloc_printerr () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #4  0x00007ffff76fbdf5 in _int_free () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #5  0x00000000004b8b41 in mxml_parse_entity (buf=buf@entry=0x7fffffffc2c8,
> file_name=file_name@entry=0x7fffffffc710
> "/home/luk/packages/mutrig_daq/online/foo.xml",
>             error=error@entry=0x7fffffffcd24 "XML read error in file
> \"/home/luk/packages/mutrig_daq/online/foo.xml\", line 2: bar.msl.xml is
> missing", error_size=error_size@entry=256,
>                 error_line=error_line@entry=0x7fffffffce24) at ../mxml/mxml.c:1996
> #6  0x00000000004b966d in mxml_parse_file
> (file_name=file_name@entry=0x7fffffffc710
> "/home/luk/packages/mutrig_daq/online/foo.xml",
>             error=error@entry=0x7fffffffcd24 "XML read error in file
> \"/home/luk/packages/mutrig_daq/online/foo.xml\", line 2: bar.msl.xml is
> missing", error_size=error_size@entry=256,
>                 error_line=error_line@entry=0x7fffffffce24) at ../mxml/mxml.c:2041
> #7  0x000000000041d9c2 in init_sequencer () at src/mhttpd.cxx:14321
> #8  0x000000000040c2b6 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at
> src/mhttpd.cxx:18028
> 
> Cheers
> Lukas
> 
> P. S. This problem reminds me of the old joke: A man goes to his doctor and says
> "Doc, it hurts when I do this" to which the doctor replies "Then don't do that".
> However, I think, mhttpd should not crash even if you're not supposed to include
> non-existent scripts in msequencer.
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