throwing an exception causes segmentation fault

Question

Collection CollectionFactory::createFromMap(const std::string& name,
        const DataMap& dm) const
{
    if (!Collection::isNameValid(name))
    {
        const std::string error = "invalid collection name";
        throw std::invalid_argument(error);
    }
    Collection c(name, dm);
    dm.initDataCollection(&c, true);
    return c;
}

Whenever the throw statement is executed, I'm getting a segmentation fault. Here is the cause from Valgrind output. I've no idea what's going on.

==21124== Invalid read of size 1
==21124==    at 0x41D2190: parse_lsda_header(_Unwind_Context*, unsigned char const*, lsda_header_info*) (eh_personality.cc:62)
==21124==    by 0x41D24A9: __gxx_personality_v0 (eh_personality.cc:228)
==21124==    by 0x4200220: _Unwind_RaiseException (unwind.inc:109)
==21124==    by 0x41D2C9C: __cxa_throw (eh_throw.cc:75)
==21124==    by 0x4079BFB: corestore::CollectionFactory::createFromMap(std::string const&, corestore::DataMap const&) const (CollectionFactory.C:43)
==21124==    by 0x8188F86: CollectionFactoryTest::testCreateNewFromMap_InvalidName() (CollectionFactoryTest.C:91)
==21124==    by 0x81895D3: CppUnit::TestCaller<CollectionFactoryTest>::runTest() (TestCaller.h:166)
==21124==    by 0x40D1BB5: CppUnit::TestCaseMethodFunctor::operator()() const (TestCase.cpp:34)
==21124==    by 0x40C18E3: CppUnit::DefaultProtector::protect(CppUnit::Functor const&, CppUnit::ProtectorContext const&) (DefaultProtector.cpp:15)
==21124==    by 0x40CD0FC: CppUnit::ProtectorChain::ProtectFunctor::operator()() const (ProtectorChain.cpp:20)
==21124==    by 0x40CCA65: CppUnit::ProtectorChain::protect(CppUnit::Functor const&, CppUnit::ProtectorContext const&) (ProtectorChain.cpp:77)
==21124==    by 0x40DC6C4: CppUnit::TestResult::protect(CppUnit::Functor const&, CppUnit::Test*, std::string const&) (TestResult.cpp:178)
==21124==  Address 0xc82f is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd

I've had several iterations of the unit test that's bombing, but here is the current one that exhibits the same bug as all the others:

void CollectionFactoryTest::testCreateNewFromMap_InvalidName()
{
    const char* MAP_FILE =
            "smallMapWithThreeSets.xml";
    const char* NAME1 = "name/invalidname";
    const char* NAME2 = "name/invalidname";

    DataMapReader dmr;
    DataMap dm = dmr.getDataMapFromFile(MAP_FILE);

    CollectionFactory cf;
    try
    {
        cf.createFromMap(NAME1, dm);
    }
    catch (std::exception const& e)
    {
        std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
    }

    /*CPPUNIT_ASSERT_THROW(cf.createFromMap(NAME1, dm), std::invalid_argument);
    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_THROW(cf.createFromMap(NAME2, dm), std::invalid_argument);*/
}

Per request, the contents of isNameValid:

bool Collection::isNameValid(const std::string& name)
{
    /* can't be blank */
    if(name.length() == 0)
    {
        return false;
    }
    /* Can't contain '/' */
    if(name.find('/') != std::string::npos)
    {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Answer 1

Is that the very first Valgrind error or are there previous ones?

My guess is that there are previous ones and one of those is corrupting memory and causing throw to break.