unity-mir

Crash in upstart_app_launch_start_application in g_strjoinv

Bug #1240616 reported by Gerry Boland
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-mir
New
High
Gerry Boland

Bug Description

Steps to repro:
1. Have shell running
2. On device as phablet user, run "gallery-app --desktop_file_hint=/usr/share/applications/gallery-app.desktop" Let app appear on screen
3. left edge swipe to return to dash
4. Hit Ctrl+C to stop gallery-app
5. Tap the GalleryApp running tile to restore the app

Expected result
Gallery app relaunched, and appears on screen eventually

Actual result
Crash

Backtrace:
#0 strlen () at ../ports/sysdeps/arm/strlen.S:28
#1 0x41ebbd12 in g_strjoinv () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0x420cfc8e in upstart_app_launch_start_application () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libupstart-app-launch.so.1
#3 0x4363bf1e in startApplication () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/imports/Unity-Mir/Unity/Application/libunityapplicationplugin.so.1.0.0

Gerry Boland (gerboland)
Changed in unity-mir:
assignee: nobody → Gerry Boland (gerboland)
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

Appears if shell passes an empty argument string to unity-mir, libupstart-app-launch chokes on it. Checking if

QString("").toLatin1().data()

actually is a valid char* string. Or else g_strjoinv is unforgiving for empty strings, and unity-mir will need to strip them from the arguments list.

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