Package: libnotmuch-dev
Version: 0.18.2-1
Severity: important
In the API documentation for notmuch_database_close() it says:
* After notmuch_database_close has been called, calls to other
* functions on objects derived from this database may either behave
* as if the database had not been closed (e.g., if the required data
* has been cached) or may fail with a
* NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION.
However, if you call notmuch_database_close() on a database and then
call notmuch_database_add_message(), it doesn't fail nicely with a
NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION, it segfaults.
This should either be fixed so it doesn't crash, as documented, or the
documentation should be changed to describe which functions are unsafe
to call after notmuch_database_close().
I'm attaching a small C program to reproduce the bug. It crashes with
the following backtrace:
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb71f3f27 in Xapian::WritableDatabase::begin_transaction(bool) ()
from /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22
#1 0xb779480d in notmuch_database_begin_atomic ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnotmuch.so.3
#2 0xb7794fa0 in notmuch_database_add_message ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnotmuch.so.3
#3 0x080488d3 in add_new_email (db=0x82b5610,
filename=0x8048b51 "/new-mail-2@example.net:2,", content=0x8048b30
"hello")
at notmuchcrash.c:27
#4 0x080489d7 in main () at notmuchcrash.c:52
Installed version of libxapian22: 1.2.19-1+deb8u1
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Versions of packages libnotmuch-dev depends on:
ii libnotmuch3 0.18.2-1
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