[perl #114972] panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen

On Wed Sep 19 12:01:36 2012, dom wrote:
> This bug is to reflect the discussion at
> 
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/04/msg185249.html
> 
> which includes a proposed fix by Nicholas Clark, currently to be
> found as the smoke-me/leave-scope-async-check branch.
> 
> This bug appears to apply to both blead (although it is now masked
> by other changes), 5.16 and 5.14. It is a regression from 5.12.
> 
> I (and I am sure Nicholas) would appreciate review of this patch for
> inclusion into blead (and potentially maint-5.16 and maint-5.14,
>    later):
> 
>
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/c6f6453f8c66b51721767cea8dd5220a7870268b

This was applied to blead as 47c9d59fcd27684d94480b806b8b6e001aac91cc,
and was included in 5.18.

It hasn't been backported to maint-5.16 or maint-5.14.

The patch requires a small change to apply to maint-5.16, I've attached
the modified patch.

If a couple of committers speak up I'll apply it to maint-5.16 (or
someone else can.)

I've added this ticket as a 5.16.4 blocker.

Tony


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• [perl #114972] panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen by Tony Cook via RT
• Re: [perl #114972] panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen by Karl Williamson