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			   READLINE PATCH REPORT
			   =====================

Readline-Release: 7.0
Patch-ID: readline70-002

Bug-Reported-by:	Hong Cho <hong.cho@citrix.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:	<c30b5fe62b2543af8297e47ca487c29c@SJCPEX02CL02.citrite.net>
Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2016-12/msg00002.html

Bug-Description:

There is a race condition in add_history() that can be triggered by a fatal
signal arriving between the time the history length is updated and the time
the history list update is completed. A later attempt to reference an
invalid history entry can cause a crash.

Index: b/history.c
===================================================================
--- a/history.c
+++ b/history.c
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ add_history (string)
      const char *string;
 {
   HIST_ENTRY *temp;
+  int new_length;
 
   if (history_stifled && (history_length == history_max_entries))
     {
@@ -295,13 +296,9 @@ add_history (string)
 
       /* Copy the rest of the entries, moving down one slot.  Copy includes
 	 trailing NULL.  */
-#if 0
-      for (i = 0; i < history_length; i++)
-	the_history[i] = the_history[i + 1];
-#else
       memmove (the_history, the_history + 1, history_length * sizeof (HIST_ENTRY *));
-#endif
 
+      new_length = history_length;
       history_base++;
     }
   else
@@ -315,7 +312,7 @@ add_history (string)
 	  else
 	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
 	  the_history = (HIST_ENTRY **)xmalloc (history_size * sizeof (HIST_ENTRY *));
-	  history_length = 1;
+	  new_length = 1;
 	}
       else
 	{
@@ -325,14 +322,15 @@ add_history (string)
 	      the_history = (HIST_ENTRY **)
 		xrealloc (the_history, history_size * sizeof (HIST_ENTRY *));
 	    }
-	  history_length++;
+	  new_length = history_length + 1;
 	}
     }
 
   temp = alloc_history_entry ((char *)string, hist_inittime ());
 
-  the_history[history_length] = (HIST_ENTRY *)NULL;
-  the_history[history_length - 1] = temp;
+  the_history[new_length] = (HIST_ENTRY *)NULL;
+  the_history[new_length - 1] = temp;
+  history_length = new_length;
 }
 
 /* Change the time stamp of the most recent history entry to STRING. */
Index: b/patchlevel
===================================================================
--- a/patchlevel
+++ b/patchlevel
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch
 
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+2