[Bug 1242746] Please test proposed package

[Adam Conrad]

Hello John-Mark, or anyone else affected,

Accepted procps into saucy-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/1:3.3.3-2ubuntu9
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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Title:
  SIGSEGV when file2str reads zero bytes

Status in “procps” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “procps” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “procps” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed
Status in “procps” source package in Raring:
  Fix Committed
Status in “procps” source package in Saucy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * various procps utilities crashing with a SIGSEGV if the file2str function in
     proc/readproc.c when it reads zero bytes

   * This is a regression introduced with (LP: #1150413)

   * The upload checks for zero length reads and now returns -1 instead of 0, like it used
     to.

  [Test Case]

   * This does not happen often enough to create a real testcase, but some users have
     reported that repeatedly running top has occassionally exhibited this problem.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Minimal, as this reverts file2str to original behavior in the case of zero length
     reads.

  [Other Info]
   
   * This patch is backported from upstream

  _________________________________________________________________________________________
  The changes made in the following commit, which backported a number of changes to the procps package in precise, result in various procps utilities crashing with a SIGSEGV if the file2str function in proc/readproc.c reads zero bytes.

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/procps
  /precise-updates/revision/61

  This corresponds to the following procps package version:
  1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1

  Prior to this changeset, file2str would return -1 if the read failed;
  now it does not, which is not expected by other parts of the procps
  codebase, hence the crash.

  Upstream have fixed this issue in the following commit:

  https://www.gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/526bc5dfa924177e68be0123bd67e3370955f924

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