One piece of additional info ... the memory violation is eliminated if I comment out the formfree call. Of course this results in
memory leakage, but the error seems to be related to repeated form creation with formadd's and then a periodic formfree. I am sure
this is heavily tested common code in the libcurl library, so it is probably misusage by my code, simple as it is.

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Max L. Eidswick
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:40 PM
To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Known problems with simple formadd and curl_formfree?

I am testing the curl library for our next product release using curl-7.17.1 - periodically, I am getting a protection violation in
the curl_easy_perform module after a curl_formfree call.

This is a simple ping test, but I wanted to be clear that the form is allocated in the libcurl and should be freed before the form
field name/value contents can be changed.

Am I misunderstanding the call or are there any known issues with repeated called to formadd/formfree over time? It happens
randomly over several thousand pings (calls to easy perform).

Thanks and regards,

Max (formdata snippet and call stack follow)

The call stack goes into the memcpy called from formdata module:

  do {

    if( (form->data->length - form->sent ) > wantedsize - gotsize) {

      memcpy(buffer + gotsize , form->data->line + form->sent,
             wantedsize - gotsize);

      form->sent += wantedsize-gotsize;

      return wantedsize;
    }

    memcpy(buffer+gotsize,
           form->data->line + form->sent,

----- call stack follows -----

        RedPawComms.exe!memcpy(unsigned char * dst=0x00dab2fd, unsigned char * src=0xfeeefeee, unsigned long count=16384) Line 233
Asm
> RedPawComms.exe!Curl_FormReader(char * buffer=0x00dab2fd, unsigned int size=1, unsigned int nitems=16384, _iobuf *
mydata=0x00da2ec8) Line 1436 + 0x22 bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!Curl_fillreadbuffer(connectdata * conn=0x011ecfe0, int bytes=16384, int * nreadp=0x010dfc10) Line 131 +
0x27 bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!Curl_readwrite(connectdata * conn=0x011ecfe0, unsigned char * done=0x010dfd2f) Line 1419 + 0x15 bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!Transfer(connectdata * conn=0x011ecfe0) Line 1872 + 0xd bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!Curl_perform(SessionHandle * data=0x00da6ea0) Line 2442 + 0x9 bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!curl_easy_perform(void * curl=0x00da6ea0) Line 498 + 0x9 bytes C
         RedPawComms.exe!RPComms_PingCheck(void * lpParam=0x0012fd7c, int bTimerOrWait=1) Line 817 + 0xb bytes C
         ntdll.dll!7c927911()

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Received on 2008-01-13