[Rd] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Crash with Unicode and sub (PR#14114)

g.russell at eos-solutions.com g.russell at eos-solutions.com
Thu Dec 10 17:36:23 CET 2009


I take that back anyway. I have now managed to reliably crash R 2.10.0 and 
R version 2.10.1 RC (2009-12-06 r50684) on Windows without using the sub 
function. The following code does it:
-- cut here --
 u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
v <- rep(u,1e2)
w <- paste(substring(v,1,100),substring(v,102),sep = "")
gctorture()
match(w,"")
-- cut here --

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Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> schrieb am 10.12.2009 15:15:09:

> g.russell at eos-solutions.com wrote:
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> For those who cannot read base64 coded mails by eye, these are the
> contents (an unmangled version reached r-devel, but probably not 
r-bugs):
> 
> 
> I don't know about the technicalities, but Peter Dalgaard said the
> offending code also causes R to come to a stop using SUSE + WINE. Is it
> possible to run that lot on top of valgrind? Of course, it will probably
> take all day ...
> 
> If not, I have a  clue which might help. The problem seems to lie in the
> "sub" routine. In the original report I used
> -- cut here --
> gctorture()
> u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
> v <- rep(u,1e2)
> v <- sub(" ","",v)
> v %in% ""
> -- cut here --
> 
> I've tried reducing this a bit more. Replacing intToUtf8 with a direct
> assignment writing out the string with Unicode escapes seems to make no
> difference. The %in% can be replaced with "match", leaving the 
following:
> -- cut here --
> gctorture()
> u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
> v <- rep(u,1e2)
> v <- sub(" ","",v)
> match(v,"")
> -- cut here --
> This also crashes R-2.10.0 and R-2.10.1 RC (2009-12-06 r50684).
> 
> The sub line is essential, so far as I can see, without it we don't get
> the crash. If we add "perl = TRUE" this seems to make no difference 
(there
> is still a crash). If instead we use "fixed = TRUE", the result is 
strange
> and differs for R-2.10.0 and R-2.10.1 RC. This is especially strange,
> because in an unbugged R, the result of v returned from sub should be 
the
> same either with fixed = TRUE or perl = TRUE.
> 
> R-2.10.0 pauses several seconds, then produces the enigmatic output:
> > match(v,"")
>   [1] 00 00 06 9d 78 9c cd 54 5d 4f 83 30 14 2d ec 9b a9 33 99 2f fe 89 
65
> 1a e3
>  [26] c3 de 8c 26 be 38 7d d5 c7 4a af 0c 57 ca 42 cb 8c bf dc 18 93 61 
29
> 1d 83
>  [51] 8e 7d c4 18 23 49 a1 f4 de 9e 7b 4e ef 81 47 07 21 64 23 5b 3e ec 
1a
> 42 56
>  [76] 4b de ea b6 5c b3 e4 e8 c8 d1 f2 80 41 e4 bb 32 7e 5c 58 ae f3 49 
f8
> 66 a6
> [101] ce b0 3b c5 1e c8 69 31 b5 15 80 98 84 84 cb e9 22 db 61 27 1b 53 
4a
> 80 0d
> [126] 2f 0a e3 99 9c f4 91 ba 4a 41 67 8e 69 0c d7 14 73 ae d1 cc 8c 0e 
f7
> 3d 86
> [151] 45 1c 81 41 be 19 3e bf 82 2b 4c 40 ee 07 33 0a 0f 8c be a7 6f 3a 
62
> ad 68
> [176] af e8 12 78 c1 31 15 c8 aa 9d 9a a1 5c 89 dd 57 cb eb 27 da 14 38 
f2
> 20 dd
> [201] 5c 45 ba c1 70 00 9b 14 35 dc 4c 6e 49 4d 51 e6 8e d3 4d 95 54 aa 
f1
> 19 90
> [226] 32 21 27 29 73 e8 26 bf 53 d6 32 71 0a 4e da 01 51 49 e3 84 48 77 
ce
> 81 dc
> [251] 64 2d 19 ab 0d 7b 33 42 9f 99 42 64 af a7 a8 5e 9d 0f ce 86 83 a1 
d9
> c1 a5
> [276] 7f d0 97 86 69 16 a2 dd 54 90 a6 93 21 1f 25 ba c2 d2 54 68 25 c8 
31
> 49 d6
> [301] ae ee 9f 2a ba d4 96 a6 89 03 60 22 83 2b 3b 17 53 3a ce 79 17 3e 
96
> b5 d3
> [326] ea ea b4 3b 9f 8b 9f b9 a5 cd a7 40 41 84 4c a9 ce dd dd 49 fe c6 
3e
> 07 7f
> [351] 54 e7 7f d9 f4 50 77 5c 19 a9 e0 b9 5e b2 dd 60 79 6c 13 ad 1e 17 
98
> 11 1c
> [376] 91 db e5 5f 7e df 0f e7 43 57 c9 7d 01 6c 3e 1a 5d 0c 2f ab 99 6e 
a9
> a8 88
> [401] 57 1c 35 5a 7c 03 73 22 e4 b1
> 
> R-2.10.1 RC produces the following equally enigmatic output:
> > match(v,"")
> NULL
> Fehler: 'getEncChar' muss für CHARSXP aufgerufen werden
> 
> So my provisional guess is the bug is somewhere in the part of the
> internal code for sub which is invoked whatever the value of fixed or
> perl. It is strange though that it makes a difference whether you 
specify
> fixed = TRUE or not.
> 
> George Russell
> 
> 
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> schrieb am 10.12.2009 
08:00:36:
> 
> > It seems (from the debugger output) that this is corruption in the R
> > memory allocation routines.  Such things can usually be tracked down
> > via valgrind and a valgrind-instrumented build of R, but I cannot
> > trigger this on any system with valgrind.  I've tried 64- and 32-bit
> > versions, and Latin-1 locales as well as UTF-8.
> >
> > So I am inclining to think this is Windows-specific.  One thing that
> > is specific to Windows is UCS-2 (16-bit) wide characters, which might
> > be the issue.  But we simply don't have the tools on Windows that we
> > do on other platforms.
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, g.russell at eos-solutions.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Peter,
> > >
> > > I have now installed R-2.10.1 RC (sessionInfo() says "R version 
2.10.1
> RC
> > > (2009-12-06 r50684)", the rest I believe is as before). The 
following
> code
> > > always brings R --vanilla down (with a crash, not a normal exit):
> > > -- cut here --
> > > gctorture()
> > > u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
> > > v <- rep(u,1e2)
> > > v <- sub(" ","",v)
> > > v %in% ""
> > > q()
> > > -- cut here --
> > >
> > > I've tried this several times now, with different effects. Sometimes 
R
> > > crashes after 'v %in% ""'. Sometimes it survives that command, but
> crashes
> > > during the q(). I have also had the error message "Fehler in 
match(x,
> > > table, nomatch = 0L) > 0L : Vergleich (6) ist nur für atomare und
> > > Listentypen möglich" from that command (the match seems to be the
> > > problem), when I type q() R still crashes.
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > >
> > > George Russell | KG EOS Holding GmbH & Co
> > >
> > > Tel: +49 40 2850 – 1574  | g.russell at eos-solutions.com
> > >
> > > EOS. With head and heart in finance
> > >
> > > KG EOS Holding GmbH & Co | Steindamm 71, 20099 Hamburg | AG Hamburg
> HRA 95
> > > 748
> > > Persönlich haftend | EOS Holding GmbH | AG Hamburg HRB 78 748
> > > Geschäftsführer | Hans-Werner Scherer, Klaus Engberding, Justus
> > > Hecking-Veltman, Paul Leary sen., Christos Savvides, Dr. Andreas
> Witzig
> > > Vorsitzender des Beirates | Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck
> > >
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> > > Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> schrieb am 08.12.2009
> 11:24:50:
> > >
> > >> g.russell at eos-solutions.com wrote:
> > >>> Full_Name: George Russell
> > >>> Version: 2.10.0
> > >>> OS: Windows XP Version 2002 SP 2
> > >>> Submission from: (NULL) (217.111.3.131)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The following typed into R --vanilla induces a crash:
> > >>> -- cut here --
> > >>> gctorture()
> > >>> u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
> > >>> v <- rep(u,1e2)
> > >>> v <- sub(" ","",v)
> > >>> v %in% ""
> > >>> -- cut here --
> > >>>
> > >>> sessionInfo() says:
> > >>>
> > >>> -- cut here --
> > >>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> > >>> i386-pc-mingw32
> > >>>
> > >>> locale:
> > >>> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
> > >>> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> > >>> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
> > >>>
> > >>> attached base packages:
> > >>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods base
> > >>> -- cut here --
> > >>>
> > >>> I apologise for not testing this with R-2.10.1 but as far as I can
> > >> see there are
> > >>> only source releases available so far, which I am not able to
> compile.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> 2.10.1 RC is available now. Please check. It does seem to be
> > >> reproducible in the Windows version, or at least it takes a very 
long
> > >> time, but that means running under Wine on SUSE for me. I don't see
> the
> > >> effect with the Linux build.
> > >>
> > >> --
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