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Bug #45434 circular reference causes segfault in gc_collect_cycles()
Submitted: 2008-07-04 20:14 UTC Modified: 2008-07-08 08:16 UTC
From: php at benjaminschulz dot com Assigned: dmitry (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2008-07-04 (CVS) OS: linux, osx
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-07-04 20:14 UTC] php at benjaminschulz dot com 
Description:
------------
A circular reference causes gc_collect_cycles() to segfault. I know there is another bug that looks similar (#36482) but i think this is a far better (because simpler) test case.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
class foo {
    public $foo;

    public function __destruct() {
        throw new Exception("foobar");
    }
}

$f1 = new foo;
$f2 = new foo;
$f1->foo = $f2;
$f2->foo = $f1;
unset($f1, $f2);
// triggers a segfault
gc_collect_cycles();


Actual result:
--------------
$ php test.php 
Segmentation fault

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 [2008-07-04 20:25 UTC] php at benjaminschulz dot com 
Oops, i missed one important point: the segfault occurs if an exception is thrown ;) Sorry, it's too late for me today.
 [2008-07-04 20:59 UTC] johannes@php.net 
(gdb) bt
#0  0x082d6232 in zend_objects_destroy_object (object=0x89f0bc0, handle=2)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend_objects.c:111
#1  0x082d5146 in gc_collect_cycles ()
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend_gc.c:561
#2  0x082c9223 in zif_gc_collect_cycles (ht=0, return_value=0x89ef718, 
    return_value_ptr=0x0, this_ptr=0x0, return_value_used=0)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend_builtin_functions.c:184
#3  0x082f2361 in zend_do_fcall_common_helper_SPEC (execute_data=0x8a1fd20)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:313
#4  0x082e039e in execute (op_array=0x89ede88)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:104
#5  0x082ba286 in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/Zend/zend.c:1198
#6  0x08269487 in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xbff2c988)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/main/main.c:2082
#7  0x0832dcc4 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbff2cae4)
    at /home/johannes/src/php/PHP_5_3/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1139
 [2008-07-08 08:16 UTC] dmitry@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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