[gdal-dev] Problem with libTiff on Solaris 10

[Gong, Shawn (Contractor)]

Dan and list,

This error looks very similar to what I have experienced on our Sun machine, trying to build and run gdal 1.5.1.
Our Sun system is SPARC Solaris 9 64-bit.

Error message when Python codes call "gtiff_driver.CreateCopy( fname, vrtds, ...)"
ERROR 1: /home/sgong/../working_dir/test2.tif:No space to read TIFF directory
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Failed to read directory at offset 8 Bus error (core dumped)


thanks, 
Shawn 

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From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dan Greve
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:51 AM
To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [gdal-dev] Problem with libTiff on Solaris 10

Greetings,

I am using the latest stable build, gdal-1.5.1 on a SPARC Solaris 10 64-bit system.  It is configured with the default drivers, but is using --with-jpeg=internal --with-libtiff=internal --with-geotiff=internal.  Using the 32-bit compiler options and libraries, I can successfully build libgdal.so and the utility programs.  However, when trying to do a gdal_translate from one simple uncompressed 3-band geotiff into another simple uncompressed 3-band geotiff, I get a "bus error" segfault.  Also, if the output tiff already exists I get two errors. "No space to read tiff directory" and "TiffReadDirectory: failed to read directory at offset 8". A quick google revealed two similiar errors, here and here. Diving into the debugger, the problem seems to lie in the tif_dirwrite.c, starting with line 755.  I believe it's due to _TIFFmalloc not allocating memory properly. The crash actual occurs on line 781, *(uint32*)n=(uint32)o->tdir_count;  

o->tdir_count is valid, but setting n to any value causes a segfault, as though TIFFmalloc did not allocate the whole requested 186 bytes. Any ideas?

<snip file=tif_dirwrite.c>
    dirmem=_TIFFmalloc(dirsize);
    if (dirmem==NULL)
    {
        TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata,module,"Out of memory");
        goto bad;
    }
    if (!(tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF))
    {
        uint8* n;
        TIFFDirEntry* o;
        n=dirmem;
        *(uint16*)n=ndir;
        if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_SWAB)
            TIFFSwabShort((uint16*)n);
        n+=2;
        o=dir;
        for (m=0; m<ndir; m++)
        {
            *(uint16*)n=o->tdir_tag;
            if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_SWAB)
                TIFFSwabShort((uint16*)n);
            n+=2;
            *(uint16*)n=o->tdir_type;
            if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_SWAB)
                TIFFSwabShort((uint16*)n);
            n+=2;
            *(uint32*)n=(uint32)o->tdir_count;
            if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_SWAB)
                TIFFSwabLong((uint32*)n);
            n+=4;
            _TIFFmemcpy(n,&o->tdir_offset,4);
            n+=4;
            o++;
        }
        *(uint32*)n = (uint32)tif->tif_nextdiroff;
    }
</snip>

-- Dan Greve
-- Software Engineer
-- Northrop Grumman Corp.