[Rd] dput function (PR#12112)

[Bill Dunlap]

By the way, valgrind finally finished checking
this example and found no problems after adding
the PROTECT(tval).  Nor did valgrindless R crash as it
did before on this example.
-Bill

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Bill,
>
> Thanks.  Whether or not it is the cause here it should clearly be
> PROTECT-ed (I suspect the original version didn't need to be, but leaving
> PROTECTs off is prejudicial to future maintenance), so I've incorporated
> this in R-devel/R-patched.
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Bill Dunlap wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 juangea at geax.net wrote:
> >
> >> Full_Name: Juan Gea
> >> Version: R version 2.6.2
> >> OS: Fedora Core 6
> >> Submission from: (NULL) (79.153.48.49)
> >>
> >> Abort:
> >>
> >> objeS  <- matrix("AAA",1000000)
> >> class(objeS)
> >> outTxt <- textConnection("vaClob", open = "w", local = FALSE)
> >> dput(objeS,outTxt)
> >> close(outTxt)
> >>
> >>
> >> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> >> ...
> >>> objeS  <- matrix("AAA",1000000)
> >>> class(objeS)
> >> [1] "matrix"
> >>> outTxt <- textConnection("vaClob", open = "w", local = FALSE)
> >>> dput(objeS,outTxt)
> >>
> >>  *** caught segfault ***
> >> address 0xb7803934, cause 'memory not mapped'
> >>
> >> Traceback:
> >>  1: dput(objeS, outTxt)
> >
> > Does the following solve the problem?  valgrind on R 2.8.0 finds
> > deparse.c:do_dput() reading from freed memory, tval, the output
> > of deparse1(), right after a call to Rconn_printf() invokes the
> > garbage collector and frees tval.
> >
> > It is taking a long time to run the example under valgrind
> > after the fix, but I think it has gotten past the original error.
> >
> > Index: src/main/deparse.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- src/main/deparse.c	(revision 46243)
> > +++ src/main/deparse.c	(working copy)
> > @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
> >     if(!isNull(CADDR(args)))
> > 	opts = asInteger(CADDR(args));
> >
> > -    tval = deparse1(tval, 0, opts);
> > +    PROTECT(tval = deparse1(tval, 0, opts));
> >     if (TYPEOF(CAR(args)) == CLOSXP) {
> > 	SET_CLOENV(CAR(args), saveenv);
> > 	UNPROTECT(1);
> > @@ -313,6 +313,7 @@
> > 	       res < strlen(CHAR(STRING_ELT(tval, i))) + 1)
> > 		warning(_("wrote too few characters"));
> > 	}
> > +    UNPROTECT(1) ; /* tval */
> >     if (!wasopen) con->close(con);
> >     return (CAR(args));
> > }
> >
> > The valgrind session was:
> >  > objeS  <- matrix("AAA",1000000)
> >  >  class(objeS)
> >  [1] "matrix"
> >  > outTxt <- textConnection("vaClob", open = "w", local = FALSE)
> >  > dput(objeS,outTxt)
> >  ==32381== Invalid read of size 4
> >  ==32381==    at 0x813917E: do_dput (deparse.c:312)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8065454: do_internal (names.c:1138)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8162267: do_begin (eval.c:1174)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x81636D0: Rf_applyClosure (eval.c:667)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x816048F: Rf_eval (eval.c:505)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8058033: Rf_ReplIteration (main.c:257)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x805825E: R_ReplConsole (main.c:306)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x80584F4: run_Rmainloop (main.c:966)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x805674D: main (Rmain.c:33)
> >  ==32381==  Address 0x59B9B58 is 2,864 bytes inside a block of size 444,472 free'd
> >  ==32381==    at 0x40052A3: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:233)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x805ACFD: R_gc_internal (memory.c:767)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x805BA4A: Rf_allocVector (memory.c:1971)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x810C45C: Rf_lengthgets (builtin.c:746)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8123B0D: text_vfprintf (connections.c:2303)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8127147: Rconn_printf (connections.c:2868)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x813917D: do_dput (deparse.c:311)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8065454: do_internal (names.c:1138)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8162267: do_begin (eval.c:1174)
> >  ==32381==    by 0x8160557: Rf_eval (eval.c:461)
> >
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