Re: mkisofs infinite loop (was: Re: problems with growisoft)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Patrick Ohly <Patrick.Ohly@gmx.de> wrote:

> - -R is important to trigger the problem
>
> A debugger shows that it gets stuck in multi.c/check_rr_dates():
> it reads and parses the same extention block infinitely because
> cont_extent (set by a CE entry in the original block) is not cleared.
>
> A solution is to to clear those variables, just as it is done after
> readsecs() in check_rr_relocation():
>
> *** multi.c     Sat May 15 18:59:40 2004
> --- multi.c.fixed       Sun Feb  6 17:42:18 2005
> ***************
> *** 601,614 ****
> --- 601,615 ----
>                          * Continue to scan the extension record.
>                          * Note that this has not been tested yet, but
> it is
>                          * definitely more correct that calling
> parse_rr()
>                          * as done in Eric's old code.
>                          */
>                         pnt = &sector[cont_offset];
>                         len = cont_size;
> +                       cont_extent = cont_offset = cont_size = 0;
>                 }
>         }

Looks reasonable.

Jörg

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