[Powertop] [bugreport] crash on powertop --debug --html=file.html

Hi all!

With git HEAD I see this crash:

$ ./src/powertop --debug --html=/home/dl9pf/powertop.1.html 
Loaded 0 prior measurements
Preparing to take measurements
Taking 1 measurement(s) for a duration of 20 second(s) each.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

$ gdb ./src/powertop core
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Reading symbols from /home/dl9pf/user/git/LF/powertop/src/powertop...done.
[New LWP 2714]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `./src/powertop --debug --
html=/home/dl9pf/powertop.1.html'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x000000000041f1dc in devlist_sort (i=0x875720, j=0x211) at 
devlist.cpp:273
273             if (i->pid != j->pid)
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x000000000041f1dc in devlist_sort (i=0x875720, j=0x211) at 
devlist.cpp:273
No locals.
#1  0x00000000004218b8 in 
std::__unguarded_linear_insert<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<devuser**, 
std::vector<devuser*, std::allocator<devuser*> >  root(a)aragorn: 
/home/dl9pf/user/git/LF/powertop                                                                                           
[17:03] 
        __val = 0x875720
        __next = {_M_current = 0x889288}
#2  0x0000000000421071 in 
std::__unguarded_insertion_sort<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<devuser**, 
std::vector<devuser*, std::allocator<devuser*> > >, bool (*)(devuser*, 
devuser*)> (__first=..., __last=..., __comp=0x41f1c2 <devlist_sort(devuser*, 
devuser*)>)
    at /usr/include/c++/4.5/bits/stl_algo.h:2160
        __i = {_M_current = 0x889318}
#3  0x0000000000420358 in 
std::__final_insertion_sort<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<devuser**, 
std::vector<devuser*, std::allocator<devuser*> > >, bool (*)(devuser*, 
devuser*)> (__first=..., __last=..., __comp=0x41f1c2 <devlist_sort(devuser*, 
devuser*)>)
    at /usr/include/c++/4.5/bits/stl_algo.h:2193
No locals.
#4  0x000000000041f948 in std::sort<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<devuser**, 
std::vector<devuser*, std::allocator<devuser*> > >, bool (*)(devuser*, 
devuser*)> (__first=..., __last=..., __comp=0x41f1c2 <devlist_sort(devuser*, 
devuser*)>) at /usr/include/c++/4.5/bits/stl_algo.h:5252
No locals.
#5  0x000000000041f2e5 in report_show_open_devices () at devlist.cpp:306
        target = 0x68edc0 <two>
        i = 0
        prev = 
"\000_Y=\377\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\240_Y=\377\177\000\000@\332h\000\000\000\000\000\240\332h\000\000\000\000\000P\241\206", 
'\000' <repeats 29 times>, 
"\020\362h\000\000\000\000\000\360_Y=\377\177\000\000&\203@\000\000\000\000\000\360_Y=\377\177\000\000EKh\201x\230Y@\240\332h\000\000\000\000\000@\332h\000\000\000\000"
        proc = 
"\200\360h\000\000\000\000\000\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\350bU\001\000\000\000\000\340bU\001\000\000\000\000\020_Y=\377\177\000\000\020\320<\357\177\177\000\000\061\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\250\332h\000\000\000\000\000(a)_Y=\377\177\000\000\224\201@\000\000\000\000\000h_Y=\377\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000  
0,0%\000kts/s\000\000\000\000\240_Y=\377\177\000\000T\016D\000\000\000\000"
#6  0x0000000000454a9b in one_measurement (seconds=20, workload=0x7fff3d5960a0 
"") at main.cpp:223
        tmp = 0
#7  0x0000000000454d81 in report (time=20, workload=0x7fff3d5960a0 "", 
iterations=1, file=0x7fff3d5970a0 "/home/dl9pf/powertop.1.html")
    at main.cpp:274
        i = 0
#8  0x0000000000455287 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff3d5981a8) at main.cpp:434
        option_index = 4
        c = -1
        wantreport = true
        iterations = 1




It runs with:

diff --git a/src/devlist.cpp b/src/devlist.cpp
index 93f2081..de98214 100644
--- a/src/devlist.cpp
+++ b/src/devlist.cpp
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ void report_show_open_devices(void)
        if (target->size() == 0)
                return;
 
-       sort(target->begin(), target->end(), devlist_sort);
+//     sort(target->begin(), target->end(), devlist_sort);
 
        if (reporttype) {
                fprintf(reportout.http_report,"<h2>Process device 
activity</h2>\n <table width=\"100%%\">\n");



Looks like something is fishy in the sort for this case.

Best,
Jan-Simon