Can you post the code of the simple program you used to reproduce the
error? (including the .pb.h/.pb.cc or the .proto file)

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:58 AM, <patrickbrosi...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thank your very much for your answer! The result of
>
>   GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_VERIFY_VERSION;
>   FeedMessage fm;
>   LOG(INFO) << fm.GetDescriptor()->DebugString();
>
> in both applications is
>
> ==13935== Invalid read of size 8
> ==13935==    at 0x510EFF2:
> google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::FindFileByName(std::string const&) const
> (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
> ==13935==    by 0x47F3F4:
> transit_realtime::protobuf_AssignDesc_gtfs_2drealtime_2eproto() (in
> /home/patrick/secure/repo/trajserver-internal2/build/trajhttpserv)
> ==13935==    by 0x50E22CF:
> google::protobuf::internal::FunctionClosure0::Run() (in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
> ==13935==    by 0x50E24F0: google::protobuf::GoogleOnceInitImpl(long*,
> google::protobuf::Closure*) (in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
> ==13935==    by 0x474464: transit_realtime::FeedMessage::GetMetadata()
> const (in /home/patrick/secure/repo/trajserver-internal2/build/trajhttpserv)
> ==13935==    by 0x442D40: GtfsRealTimeReader::getTripUpdates() (in
> /home/patrick/secure/repo/trajserver-internal2/build/trajhttpserv)
> ==13935==    by 0x4824AB:
> updateRealtimeReaders(std::vector<GtfsRealTimeReader,
> std::allocator<GtfsRealTimeReader> >*, unsigned int) (in
> /home/patrick/secure/repo/trajserver-internal2/build/trajhttpserv)
> ==13935==  Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
> ==13935==
> [22/05/2014 19:55:47,646579] FATAL: CRASH HANDLED; Application has crashed
> due to [SIGSEGV] signal
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2014 19:47:21 UTC+2 schrieb Feng Xiao:
>>
>> Can you try if the following code can produce any meaningful results? I
>> suggest you try this once in your original binary and then create a simple
>> program calling the following code only (and only linking the .proto file
>> without anything else in your project). If both fail (segfault), it might
>> be a bug in protobuf generated code. If only the former fails, the problem
>> should be somewhere else in your project (memory corruption bugs most
>> likely).
>>
>> LOG(INFO) << fm.GetDescriptor()->DebugString();
>>
>> Note that you shouldn't change the generated code. It won't work.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:28 AM, <patrick...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am still experiencing this problem. Any help is highly appreciated, I
>>> tried everything.
>>>
>>> The problem only occurs if bad data is fed to the parseFromString()
>>> function. The following code crashes with a segmentation fault if
>>> readBuffer contains bad data (currently, the content of
>>> http://www.google.com). If readBuffer contains well-formed
>>> GTFS-realtime data, everything works as expected:
>>>
>>>   if (!(fm.ParseFromString(readBuffer))) {
>>>     LOG(WARNING) << "Failed to parse realtime GTFS.";
>>>     return;
>>>   }
>>>
>>> This is the line in the gtfs-realtime.pb.cc (in method
>>> protobuf_AssignDesc_headers_2fprotobuf_2fgtfs_2drealtime_2eproto())
>>> that causes the crash:
>>>
>>>   const ::google::protobuf::FileDescriptor* file =
>>>     ::google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::generated_
>>> pool()->FindFileByName(
>>>       "headers/protobuf/gtfs-realtime.proto");
>>>
>>> For some reason, it tries to read the original .proto file if bad data
>>> is received. I tried changing this line to an absolute path, but the
>>> problem persists. The gtfs-realtime.proto file resides in headers/protobuf.
>>> protoc is called like this:
>>>
>>> protoc -I=headers/protobuf --cpp_out=. headers/protobuf/gtfs-
>>> realtime.proto
>>>
>>> I tried several locations for -cpp_out, but it didnt help.
>>>
>>> This is the valgrind output after the crash:
>>>
>>> ==4015== Invalid read of size 8
>>> ==4015==    at 0x5108FF2: 
>>> google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::FindFileByName(std::string
>>> const&) const (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x47F3F4: transit_realtime::protobuf_
>>> AssignDesc_gtfs_2drealtime_2eproto() (in /home/patrick/repos/
>>> trajserver/trajhttpserv)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x50DC2CF: 
>>> google::protobuf::internal::FunctionClosure0::Run()
>>> (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x50DC4F0: google::protobuf::GoogleOnceInitImpl(long*,
>>> google::protobuf::Closure*) (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
>>> libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x474444: transit_realtime::FeedMessage::GetMetadata()
>>> const (in /home/patrick/repos/trajserver/trajhttpserv)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x513FF6F: google::protobuf::Message::GetTypeName()
>>> const (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x50EB090: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
>>> libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x50EB891: 
>>> google::protobuf::MessageLite::ParseFromString(std::string
>>> const&) (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x442E83: GtfsRealTimeReader::getTripUpdates() (in
>>> /home/patrick/repos/trajserver/trajhttpserv)
>>> ==4015==    by 0x4824AB: 
>>> updateRealtimeReaders(std::vector<GtfsRealTimeReader,
>>> std::allocator<GtfsRealTimeReader> >*, unsigned int) (in
>>> /home/patrick/repos/trajserver/trajhttpserv)
>>> ==4015==  Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
>>> ==4015==
>>> [22/05/2014 15:21:02,241645] FATAL: CRASH HANDLED; Application has
>>> crashed due to [SIGSEGV] signal
>>>
>>>
>>> Again, this crash happens every time I try to parse some random string
>>> as a GTFS-realtime protobuf feed.
>>>
>>> I reproduced the segfault on three different machines: a Ubuntu 13.10
>>> machine with libprotoc 2.4.1, a Ubuntu 14.04 machine with libprotoc 2.5.0
>>> and a Debian machine with libprotoc 2.4.1. I tried different c++ version,
>>> Ii tried -O1, -O2, -O3, I tried fixing the gtfs-realtime.pb.cc line by
>>> hand, I played around with the protoc parameters, I compiled and installed
>>> libprotoc 2.5.0 by hand on all 3 machines, I tried parsing the feed from a
>>> stream and from a string, I created an application that only reads
>>> http://www.google.com and feeds it to parseFromString() function - the
>>> behaviour is always exactly the same: no problem on well-formed data,
>>> segfault on bad data.
>>>
>>> I am using the original gtfs-realtime.proto file from the GTFS realtime
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2014 15:29:48 UTC+2 schrieb patrick...@googlemail.com
>>> :
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am using a straightforward C++ client to fetch GTFS-realtime feeds.
>>>> Feeds are read into a string with libcurl and than parsed:
>>>>
>>>> GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_VERIFY_VERSION;
>>>> FeedMessage fm;
>>>>
>>>> /** fetching realtime feed with libcurl into readBuffer **/
>>>>
>>>> if (!fm.ParseFromString(readBuffer)) {  // this line crashes
>>>>   LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to parse realtime GTFS.";
>>>>   return;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I experience random segfault crashes during parsing. All of them oocure
>>>> while parsing a very specific feed. The segfault is caused by
>>>>
>>>> google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::FindFileByName
>>>>
>>>> Backtrace:
>>>>
>>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>> #0  0x00007ffff7901f3e in 
>>>> google::protobuf::DescriptorPool::FindFileByName(std::string
>>>> const&) const () from /usr/lib/libprotobuf.so.7
>>>> #1  0x000000000047e045 in transit_realtime::protobuf_Ass
>>>> ignDesc_headers_2fprotobuf_2fgtfs_2drealtime_2eproto() () at
>>>> headers/protobuf/gtfs-realtime.pb.cc:80
>>>> #2  0x00007ffff7683400 in pthread_once ()
>>>>     at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_once.S:104
>>>> #3  0x0000000000471593 in transit_realtime::FeedMessage::GetMetadata()
>>>> const
>>>>     () at /usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/once.h:115
>>>> #4  0x00007ffff7932274 in google::protobuf::Message::GetTypeName()
>>>> const ()
>>>>    from /usr/lib/libprotobuf.so.7
>>>> #5  0x00007ffff78e2f17 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libprotobuf.so.7
>>>> #6  0x00007ffff78e3714 in 
>>>> google::protobuf::MessageLite::ParseFromString(std::string
>>>> const&) () from /usr/lib/libprotobuf.so.7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since the segfaults are _always_ caused by the same feed, I strongly
>>>> suspect that it is bad data that causes the crash. The random nature of the
>>>> crashes could be explained by the feed returning a bad message every few
>>>> few hours. Nevertheless, for bad data, ParseFromString() should return
>>>> false, and not crash completely.
>>>>
>>>> I am using g++ 4.8.1 with -O3 -g -std=c++0x
>>>> protoc --version returns "libprotoc 2.4.1"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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