[Rd] ASAN error with R-devel

[Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.]

I have an ASAN enabled version of R-devel on my test machine, and can get it to relably 
crash.  Here is the first part of the session:

tmt-local2434% R --vanilla

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 > install.packages('kinship2')
Installing package into ‘/home/therneau/Rlib’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
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==21606==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x602000042830 at pc 
0x7f9f834fa0f7 bp 0x7fff24ab9050 sp 0x7fff24ab87f8
READ of size 1 at 0x602000042830 thread T0
     #0 0x7f9f834fa0f6 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.4+0x5a0f6)
     #1 0x7f787837d683 in _XimUnRegisterIMInstantiateCallback 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x64683)
     #2 0x7f7878364d32 in XUnregisterIMInstantiateCallback 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x4bd32)
     #3 0x7f787837d566 in _XimRegisterIMInstantiateCallback 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x64566)
     #4 0x7f7878364cba in XRegisterIMInstantiateCallback 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x4bcba)
     #5 0x7f78745cddfb in TkpOpenDisplay (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0xf2dfb)
     #6 0x7f787453c769 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0x61769)
     #7 0x7f787453d0ab in TkCreateMainWindow (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0x620ab)
     #8 0x7f7874548cc6 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0x6dcc6)
     #9 0x7f7874546c7a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0x6bc7a)
     #10 0x7f787453f6c4 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so+0x646c4)
     #11 0x7f7874bf0c0b in tcltk_init /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/library/tcltk/src/tcltk.c:697
     #12 0x5582e3aa93c1 in do_dotCode /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/dotcode.c:1743
     #13 0x5582e3b41f79 in bcEval /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:6775
     #14 0x5582e3b6a5df in Rf_eval /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:620
     #15 0x5582e3b702b9 in R_execClosure /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:1780
     #16 0x5582e3b72777 in Rf_applyClosure /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:1706
     #17 0x5582e3b4ab0a in bcEval /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:6743
     #18 0x5582e3b6a5df in Rf_eval /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:620
     #19 0x5582e3b6c55e in forcePromise /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:516
     #20 0x5582e3b6d22f in FORCE_PROMISE /usr/local/src/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:4900
  ...
     #133 0x7f788f5e6b96 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x21b96)
     #134 0x5582e392b999 in _start (/usr/local/src/R-devel/bin/exec/R+0x135999)

0x602000055af0 is located 0 bytes inside of 1-byte region [0x602000055af0,0x602000055af1)
freed by thread T0 here:
     #0 0x7f7891a157b8 in __interceptor_free (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.4+0xde7b8)
     #1 0x7f7878373d8c in XSetLocaleModifiers (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x5ad8c)

previously allocated by thread T0 here:
     #0 0x7f7891a15b50 in __interceptor_malloc 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.4+0xdeb50)
     #1 0x7f7878373984 in _XlcDefaultMapModifiers 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6+0x5a984)

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free 
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.4+0x5a0f6)

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Terry T.




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