On 5/14/19 2:16 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Reproduces for me on Debian 9 with a fresh bash devel build (with or
> without DEBUG and MALLOC DEBUG). Anything with a glob will do to reproduce:
>
> $ valgrind ./bash -c ': *'
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ ./build/bash-5.0.7/bash -c ': *'
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ echo $?
0
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.9
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ ulimit -c unlimited
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ ./build/bash-5.0.7/bash -c ': *'
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ echo $?
0
chet@caleb-debian9:~$ ./build/bash-5.0.7/bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION'
5.0.7(1)-release
chet@caleb-debian9:~$
If bash were freeing unallocated memory, the bash malloc would catch it.
I assume this is a valgrind false positive.
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