Re: bug#16872: `date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'` crashes

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/25/2014 08:50 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 08:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> as reported by Bertrand Jacquin, this crashes:
>> $ date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007ffff7ab1014 in __GI___libc_free (mem=0x7fffffffc8b0) at 
>> malloc.c:2942
>> #1  0x0000000000406730 in parse_datetime (address@hidden, p=<optimized out>, 
>> address@hidden "TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" \"00:00 + 1 hour\"", 
>> now=<optimized out>, now
>> @entry=0x0) at ./lib/parse-datetime.y:1307
>> #2  0x00000000004023c7 in main (argc=0x3, argv=0x7fffffffcc68) at 
>> src/date.c:522
>>
>> that's 15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e i happened to have already
>> built, but seems to reproduce easily across older versions.
>> -mike
>>
> 
> Ugh. Reproducible here.
> I'll fix up the issue in gnulib.

Proposed patch attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

date-tz-crash.patch
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