If you have a corrupted HDF5 file that causes HDF5 library to crash, we would love to have it!
We have been fixing the library to fail gracefully on the corrupted files (yes, long overdue ;-( ). Some partial fix is coming in 1.10.0 and 1.8.17 releases.
To complete the work we will need to generate corrupted HDF5 files, fix the problems they expose and use the files in our regression testing. This will take some time. Meanwhile, it will help us to move forward with the fixes if we can have a collection of the corrupted files (right now we have only one).
Thank you in advance!
Elena
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:34:17 +0000, Elena Pourmal said:
If you have a corrupted HDF5 file that causes HDF5 library to crash, we
would love to have it!
We have been fixing the library to fail gracefully on the corrupted
files (yes, long overdue ;-( ). Some partial fix is coming in 1.10.0 and
1.8.17 releases.
To complete the work we will need to generate corrupted HDF5 files, fix
the problems they expose and use the files in our regression testing.
This will take some time. Meanwhile, it will help us to move forward
with the fixes if we can have a collection of the corrupted files (right
now we have only one).
--
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Sean McBride, B. Eng sean@rogue-research.com
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
Thank you for the pointer! Looks very interesting!
We did discuss this type of testing and, hopefully, will do it at some point.
Creating a corrupted HDF5 file is not difficult. We will need to traverse a valid HDF5 file, find metadata and modify it to corrupt it. We will need to make sure that we go through all types of HDF5 metadata. It is not difficult, we just need time and focus.
We will be more than happy to get help from the community
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:34:17 +0000, Elena Pourmal said:
If you have a corrupted HDF5 file that causes HDF5 library to crash, we
would love to have it!
We have been fixing the library to fail gracefully on the corrupted
files (yes, long overdue ;-( ). Some partial fix is coming in 1.10.0 and
1.8.17 releases.
To complete the work we will need to generate corrupted HDF5 files, fix
the problems they expose and use the files in our regression testing.
This will take some time. Meanwhile, it will help us to move forward
with the fixes if we can have a collection of the corrupted files (right
now we have only one).
--
____________________________________________________________
Sean McBride, B. Eng sean@rogue-research.com
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
