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segfault produced on multiple platforms with ftp endpoint #756
Description
We started to see this behavior when transitioning Bioconductor build system to ubuntu 24.04, but now see on other platforms.
library(httr)
url1 <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconductor"
response1 <- GET(url1)
url2 <- "ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-71/gtf/caenorhabditis_elegans/Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.71.gtf.gz"
response2a <- GET(url2, write_disk(tempfile()))
response2b <- GET(url2, write_disk(tempfile()))Event:
*** caught segfault ***
address 0x33326c656342572e, cause 'invalid permissions'
Traceback:
1: curl::curl_fetch_disk(url, x$path, handle = handle)
2: request_fetch.write_disk(req$output, req$url, handle)
3: request_fetch(req$output, req$url, handle)
4: request_perform(req, hu$handle$handle)
5: GET(url2, write_disk(tempfile()))
Platform:
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.7
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; LAPACK version 3.12.0
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: internal
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] httr_1.4.7 rmarkdown_2.28
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.4.1 startup_0.22.0 R6_2.5.1 fastmap_1.2.0
[5] cli_3.6.3 tools_4.4.1 htmltools_0.5.8.1 curl_5.2.3
[9] knitr_1.48 xfun_0.47 digest_0.6.37 rlang_1.1.4
[13] evaluate_1.0.0
Thanks to @hpages for the reprex.
Activity
hadley commentedon Oct 21, 2024
Related: #755. But as @jeroen reports it's better fixed in curl itself: jeroen/curl#348
jeroen commentedon Nov 5, 2024
Workaround is on CRAN now in curl 6.0.0. To emphasize, the problem also disappears when your system updates to libcurl 8.8.0 or newer.