Package: grep
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16586

Confirmed and forwareded.

Thanks for your report, 

Santiago

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:13:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: grep
> Version: 2.16-1
> Severity: important
> 
> grep -P loops on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences, e.g.
> 
> $ /usr/bin/printf "\xe9\x65\n\xab\n" | grep -P '.e|.?z' | head
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> �e
> 
> (the infinite loop is interrupted here by a broken pipe due to
> the "head").
> 
> It seems that the fix of
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730472
> 
> didn't solve all the problems.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages grep depends on:
> ii  dpkg          1.17.6
> ii  install-info  5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
> ii  libc6         2.17-97
> ii  libpcre3      1:8.31-2
> 
> grep recommends no packages.
> 
> grep suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 


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