Oh sorry, you're trying to write 8201 bytes into an 8200 byte buffer.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 22:36 Derrick McKee <derrick.mc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks like html_link_find is allocating a buffer of size 0, and then
> you are trying to write 1 byte to it.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 22:28 James Read <jamesread5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is my valgrind output that I don't understand:
>>
>> ==319842== Invalid write of size 1
>> ==319842==    at 0x48436E4: mempcpy (in
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>> ==319842==    by 0x50CD1D8: _IO_default_xsputn (genops.c:386)
>> ==319842==    by 0x50CD1D8: _IO_default_xsputn (genops.c:370)
>> ==319842==    by 0x50B227B: __vfprintf_internal (vfprintf-internal.c:1688)
>> ==319842==    by 0x50C0278: __vsprintf_internal (iovsprintf.c:95)
>> ==319842==    by 0x509D047: sprintf (sprintf.c:30)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10B88F: html_link_find (crawler.c:452)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10BD6F: html_parse (crawler.c:536)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10C2CB: check_multi_info (crawler.c:678)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10C3DA: event_cb (crawler.c:706)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10D828: crawler_init (crawler.c:1154)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10DAE8: main (crawler.c:1207)
>> ==319842==  Address 0xf107d18 is 0 bytes after a block of size 8,200
>> alloc'd
>> ==319842==    at 0x483B7F3: malloc (in
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10B736: html_link_find (crawler.c:440)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10BD6F: html_parse (crawler.c:536)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10C2CB: check_multi_info (crawler.c:678)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10C3DA: event_cb (crawler.c:706)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10D828: crawler_init (crawler.c:1154)
>> ==319842==    by 0x10DAE8: main (crawler.c:1207)
>> ==319842==
>>
>> valgrind: m_mallocfree.c:305 (get_bszB_as_is): Assertion 'bszB_lo ==
>> bszB_hi' failed.
>> valgrind: Heap block lo/hi size mismatch: lo = 8272, hi =
>> 3625731377157460067.
>> This is probably caused by your program erroneously writing past the
>> end of a heap block and corrupting heap metadata.  If you fix any
>> invalid writes reported by Memcheck, this assertion failure will
>> probably go away.  Please try that before reporting this as a bug.
>>
>> The code this pertains to can be found at
>> https://github.com/JamesRead5737/webcrawler
>>
>> Any help in understanding what this error means would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> James Read
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