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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-35970

Plugin subsystem seems to crash when scanning Dlls other than the QT plugin DLLs (e.g. Qt5Core.dll) in function "findPatternUnloaded" in file "qlibrary.cpp"

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P4: Low
    • 5.2.1
    • 5.2.0
    • Core: Plugins
    • None
    • Microsoft Windows 7 64 Bit, Visual Studio 2012
    • 131a511194935554357972c99c325c7202077560 (stable 5.2.1, 8.1.2014)

    Description

      I use the command line option "-platformpluginpath" to specify a search path for plugins in QT software deployment. When I specified the additional library path ".", a crash arised. When using the debugger, the callstack is:

      Qt5Cored.dll!QByteArray::QByteArray(const char * data, int size) Line 1386 C++
      > Qt5Cored.dll!QLibraryPrivate::fromRawMetaData(const char * raw) Line 115 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!findPatternUnloaded(const QString & library, QLibraryPrivate * lib) Line 307 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!QLibraryPrivate::updatePluginState() Line 689 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!QLibraryPrivate::isPlugin() Line 662 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!QFactoryLoader::update() Line 161 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!QFactoryLoader::refreshAll() Line 298 C++
      Qt5Cored.dll!QCoreApplication::addLibraryPath(const QString & path) Line 2392 C++

      When looking more closely at it, it seems that the problem arises when scanning the DLL Qt5Core.dll (which is located in directory "." in my case) in function "findPatternUnloaded".

      I did some aditional tests let me get the impression that the function "findPatternUnloaded" crashes whenever it sees any DLL other that one foreseen as a QT plugin. I think that DLLs other than the QT plugin DLLs do not have the META DATA that QT scans for.

      It may not be the common case to put a "normal" DLL into a plugin directory but QT should not crash, I think.

      By the way, I need to specify a specific QT plugin search path since I load the complete QT system in Matlab via mex file. The typical way to locate the plugins for the platform do not really work for me.

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            kleint Friedemann Kleint
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