Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm running the tests with and without your patch as well. >> So far I've run t9128 300 times with the patch and no >> failures. Without it, it's failed 3 times in only a few >> dozen runs. That's promising. > > Thanks for confirming it works on other systems. > Pull request and patch below: > > The following changes since commit 5be1f00a9a701532232f57958efab4be8c959a29: > > First batch after 2.16 (2018-01-23 13:21:10 -0800) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > git://bogomips.org/git-svn.git svn-branch-segfault > > for you to fetch changes up to 2784b8d68faca823489949cbc69ead2f296cfc07: > > git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault (2018-01-29 23:12:00 +0000) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Wong (1): > git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault > > git-svn.perl | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Thanks. I'd actually apply this as a patch instead of pullilng, as I suspect you'd want it in 'maint' as well, though. > ---------8<--------- > Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault > > It seems necessary to control destruction ordering to avoid a > segfault with SVN 1.9.5 when using "git svn branch". > I've also reported the problem against libsvn-perl to Debian > [Bug #888791], but releasing the SVN::Client instance can be > beneficial anyways to save memory. > > ref: https://bugs.debian.org/888791 > Tested-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > git-svn.perl | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl > index 76a75d0b3d..a6b6c3e40c 100755 > --- a/git-svn.perl > +++ b/git-svn.perl > @@ -1200,6 +1200,11 @@ sub cmd_branch { > $ctx->copy($src, $rev, $dst) > unless $_dry_run; > > + # Release resources held by ctx before creating another SVN::Ra > + # so destruction is orderly. This seems necessary with SVN 1.9.5 > + # to avoid segfaults. > + $ctx = undef; > + > $gs->fetch_all; > }
