Recent taglib memleak introduced in 9b995544e

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Mon Oct 24 16:19:49 UTC 2016


could be - I'll test it here,
I assumed that using kdesrc-build ( that compiles taglib ) I would be
running that version of taglib.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Scott Wheeler <wheeler at kde.org> wrote:

> I suspect what you're seeing is that the indexer is using the old version
> of TagLib, and the file introduced specifically is testing for that bug.  I
> don't think that's really a bug of the TagLib developer sources.
>
> -Scott
>
> > On Oct 24, 2016, at 13:56, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > please cc to me as I'm not on the mailing-list.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this bug is here for a longer time, but a binary file
> introduced in 9b995544e ( toc_many_children.mp3 ) causes taglib to eat my
> whole memory ( 20gbs ) and my system is unresponsive.
> >
> > I know that this file is used only for testing purposes but as soon as I
> checked out the repository, baloo tried to index it and in the index it
> uses taglib to find out about mp3 information, and poof.
> >
> > I tried to run the tests files and they run fine
> > vlc also crashes trying to open the file (also using taglib)
> >
> > Tomaz
>
>
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