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ID: 51329 Comment by: ivo at danihelka dot net Reported by: gergely dot fabian at radix-technologies dot com Summary: call_user_func_array() crashes with autoload in recursive calls Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Reproducible crash Operating System: Ubuntu PHP Version: 5.2.13 New Comment: I simplified the test case. It is not needed to create the classes on disk. Test script: ------------ $limit = 50; function __autoload($class_name) { eval(" echo \"$class_name loaded\\n\"; class $class_name { public static function execute_me(){ return \"$class_name executed\\n\"; } }"); } function go_deeper($limit, $i = 1){ echo call_user_func_array(array("P$i", 'execute_me'), array()); if($i < $limit) go_deeper($limit, $i+1); } go_deeper($limit); echo "Success\n"; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-09 08:34:12] denis at bitrix dot ru I have the same problem. Why is it bogus? There is no unlimit recursion! The only workaround I found is not to use autoload. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-22 07:40:00] gergely dot fabian at radix-technologies dot com I have to emphasize that the use case where this bug came out was not infinite recursion. It is in an MVC web application framework (symfony) that a given amount of filters (let's say 15) are one-by-one called by the filterChain's execute() method, and then call back to filterChain->execute() (thus making a sort of indirect recursion). In our case if we have certain conditions true and have a 7th filter, then a later call_user_func_array call will cause a segfault. Having less number of filters (disabling any of them) "fixes" the bug (not reaching that amount of recursion), as also having one more filter (making an additional recursion step). The second testcase reproduces this with plain PHP code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-22 07:24:26] gergely dot fabian at radix-technologies dot com The infinite recursion that you mentioned also causes segfault, but it's another case. If I remove the call_user_func_array call, and the limit of 50, then it will segfault after around 14860 recursive calls (on my machine). My original code (and the second version I posted) segfaults at 25/31st recursion. That's a different amount I'd say. If I change the second version of my testcase to jump call_user_func_array call at 25th recursion, then it runs until 208th recursion and dies again on call_user_func_array. If enable though class_exists() before call_user_func_array(), then recursion is successful for both 25th and 208th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-21 21:59:57] gergely dot fabian at radix-technologies dot com This is not infinite recursion (is 31/25 recursion too deep?). See my comment with putting one element to call stack "fixing" later autoloading (2010-03-19 09:38 UTC). This is an autoloading/call_user_func_array bug imho. Otherwise if it would be normal for this to happen, why does class_exists() call right before the segfaulting place fix it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-21 19:24:32] johan...@php.net Infinite recursion is known to segfault and expected behavior. See other reports about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51329 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51329&edit=1