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Bug #34415 seg fault when using scandir
Submitted: 2005-09-07 23:13 UTC Modified: 2005-09-28 05:12 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: worthbob01 at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 5CVS-2005-09-09 (snap) OS: RHES3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-09-07 23:13 UTC] worthbob01 at yahoo dot com 
Description:
------------
recursive scandir causes seg fault.  code example from http://us2.php.net/scandir User Contributed Notes.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
$afiles = scandir_recursive("/tmp");
function scandir_recursive($directory)
{
  $folderContents = array();
  $directory = realpath($directory).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
  foreach (scandir($directory) as $folderItem) {
    if ($folderItem != "." AND $folderItem != "..") {
      if (is_dir($directory.$folderItem.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR)) {
        $folderContents[$folderItem] = scandir_recursive( $directory.$folderItem."\\");
      }
      else {
        $folderContents[] = $folderItem;
      }
    }
  }
  return $folderContents;
}
?>


Expected result:
----------------
nothing as there is not output in the sample.  just expected it to run without a seg fault.

Actual result:
--------------
[bob@dev design]# date;php sample.php;date
Wed Sep  7 16:11:11 CDT 2005
Segmentation fault
Wed Sep  7 16:11:12 CDT 2005
[bob@dev design]#

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 [2005-09-07 23:43 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip
 [2005-09-10 17:04 UTC] worthbob01 at yahoo dot com 
[root@dev design]# date; php --version;  php sample.php ; date
Sat Sep 10 10:02:20 CDT 2005
PHP 5.1.0-dev (cli) (built: Sep  9 2005 12:59:00)
Copyright (c) 1997-2005 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Zend Technologies
Segmentation fault
Sat Sep 10 10:02:21 CDT 2005
 [2005-09-10 23:21 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a backtrace to see what is happening behind the scenes. To
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http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php

Once you have generated a backtrace, please submit it to this bug
report and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for helping
us make PHP better.
 [2005-09-18 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2005-09-27 23:30 UTC] aarondoom at cookiedoom dot com 
Your function is stuck in a recursive loop, eventually this will seg fault.

If you wanna see it in action add the following lines to the top of the function.

    static $depth = 0;
    echo $depth++;

To fix the problem remove the . "\\" from the tail of "scandir_recursive($directory.$folderItem."\\");".

Here's a cleaned up function to not display errors and so forth.

function scandir_recursive($directory)
{
    $folderContents = array();
    $directory = realpath($directory) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    $folderItems = @scandir($directory);

    if (!is_array($folderItems)) return "No access";

    foreach ($folderItems as $folderItem) {
        if (substr($folderItem, 0, 1) != ".") { // Ignore anything hidden
            if (is_dir($directory . $folderItem . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
                $folderContents[$folderItem] = scandir_recursive($directory . $folderItem);
            else
                $folderContents[] = $folderItem;
        }
    }

    return $folderContents;
}

^_^
 [2005-09-28 05:12 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
So not a bug.  Don't write infinitely recursing functions.  Chances are you can avoid a crash in this situation by compiling with memory-limit enabled, but the real fix is to fix your code as suggested.
 
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