FFI::NullPointerError: when reading the smallest GIF

[Nakilon]

Vips::Image.new_from_buffer("GIF89a\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\xff\x00,\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\x02\x00;", "").to_enum

FFI::NullPointerError: invalid memory read at address=0x0000000000000000

MacOS, ruby 2.3.8, ruby-vips-2.1.4, vips-8.11.3

I suppose I took it from here http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever

[jcupitt]

Hi @Nakilon,

Ouch, that's bad, thanks for the report. It seems to be fixed in master and in 8.13:

$ irb                                    
irb(main):001:0> require 'vips'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Vips::Image.new_from_buffer("GIF89a\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\xff\x00,\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\x02\x00;", "")
=> #<Image 1x1 uchar, 3 bands, srgb>
irb(main):003:0> 

[Nakilon]

Oh, good to know. Indeed I see lots of recent GIF-related commits. Fine then.
I used a bit larger file from the same article for my unit test for now.

[kleisauke]

Ah, I remembered having seeing this before with the old giflib-based loader, see e.g. libvips/libvips#773.

I think(?) commit netsurf-browser/libnsgif@41f33c7 fixed this. This was landed in libvips with commit libvips/libvips@8c9d899.