[ros-dev] USetup meets NewInfLib

[Eric Kohl]

Hi Roel,

I just committed your changes as they fix some of the issues. Thanks for 
finding these bugs!

I also added a little change to the inf-parser that makes the parser 
stop reading as soon as it finds the first null character.


Regards,
Eric


Roel Messiant schrieb:
> Hey,
> 
> This one's mostly for Eric Kohl.
> 
> Newinflib seems to be causing some issues for usetup, accessing memory 
> it shouldn't.
> Attached are some patches that solve this.
> 
> The newinflib one fixes some pointer arithmetic, which ended up lying 
> about a buffer size.
> This was already fixed in the host code, so I just applied the same fix 
> to the ros code.
> 
> The usetup patch is a hackfix. The issue here is that usetup fetches a 
> line from a section,
> but the line is blank. Usetup treats it as a data line, and reading the 
> data from it results
> in NULL .. which usetup tries to dereference.
> I just hackfixed that one because the code hasn't changed, so it must've 
> worked fine with
> the previous inflib. So the question end up as: is newinflib wrong here 
> by not trying to skip
> the blank line, or should usetup keep in mind such lines can exist.. or 
> some third option?
> 
> WBR,
> 
> Roel Messiant
> 
> PS: I know patches belong in bugzilla, but the perceived urgency on my 
> side won the decision on where to post them.
> 
> 
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