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Bug#300502: If postrm of package removes the packge being installed a 'free(): invalid pointer' error occurs



Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.27

The attached package (and source) help demonstrate this issue. Just install the package, and then mount a tmpfs in /tmp called 't'. Then, place this package in that tmpfs and try to install it again. As far as I know this doesn't affect any 'real' packages.

I was unable to reproduce the problem if the umount happened in the preinst, only in the postrm of the package being upgraded.

Ie:

cp testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb /tmp
cd /tmp
dpkg -i testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb
mkdir t
mount -t tmpfs none t
cp testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb t
dpkg -i t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb

Transcript:

runabout:/tmp# cp ~dieman/debian/test-case/testcase*deb .
runabout:/tmp# dpkg -i testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 71012 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking testcase (from testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up testcase (0.1-1) ...
runabout:/tmp# mount -t tmpfs none t
runabout:/tmp# cp testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb t
runabout:/tmp# dpkg -i t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 71016 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace testcase 0.1-1 (using t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement testcase ...
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb': No such file or directory
free(): invalid pointer 0xb7f1e4c4!
dpkg: error processing t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
t/testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb


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Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> KC0OBS  http://www.ringworld.org/

Attachment: testcase_0.1-1.diff.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Format: 1.0
Source: testcase
Version: 0.1-1
Binary: testcase
Maintainer: Scott Dier <sdier@debian.org>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0)
Files: 
 e4b3b5e7bc254bd8ab50a571b7b8f605 1720 testcase_0.1-1.tar.gz

Attachment: testcase_0.1-1.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: testcase_0.1-1_i386.deb
Description: application/debian-package


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