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24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Subject: 24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:15:39 +0200

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Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators for other languages.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

I see this both with today's trunk and in the 24.0.93 pretest, both on
GNU/Linux and on MS-Windows.

To reproduce:

 emacs -Q
 C-x b foo RET
 M-: (set-buffer-multibyte nil) RET
 C-x RET c undecided-dos RET C-u M-! gunzip -c emacs-24.0.93.tar.gz RET

(It must be the tarball of Emacs 24.0.93, because the bug is
data-dependent.  It doesn't have to be .tar.gz, as long as you use the
correct decompressor: bunzip2 for .tar.bz2. xz for .tar.xz, etc.  You
can even do this with an uncompressed tarball and cat.  The important
part is that Emacs gets the byte stream of that tarball, and it gets
it from a subprocess.)

This crashes somewhere in the middle of reading the output from the
subprocess.  The immediate reason for the crash can be seen from this
fragment of the backtrace:

  #0  w32_abort () at w32fns.c:7196
  #1  0x012eea83 in temp_set_point_both (buffer=0x10137600, charpos=45817604,
      bytepos=45817605) at intervals.c:1870
  #2  0x01135816 in Fcall_process (nargs=6, args=0x82f644) at callproc.c:846

As you see temp_set_point_both gets character position and byte
position that are different, which cannot happen in a unibyte buffer
(as can be seen above, the recipe makes the buffer `foo' a unibyte
one).  There's an assertion inside temp_set_point_both that aborts due
to this.

The call to temp_set_point_both is in call-process:

		  TEMP_SET_PT_BOTH (PT + process_coding.produced_char,
				    PT_BYTE + process_coding.produced);
		  carryover = process_coding.carryover_bytes;
		  if (carryover > 0)
		    memcpy (buf, process_coding.carryover,
			    process_coding.carryover_bytes);

The crash happens at the point in the input byte stream where the last
byte in the chunk we read from the pipe is \r.  Since the stream is
decoded with raw-text-dos coding-system, this last \r is left as a
"carryover", for the possibility that there will be a \n at the
beginning of the next chunk.  However, process_coding.produced does
not account for this single byte that was not processed, and gets the
value one more than it should.

As far as I could see, the problematic code that sets
process_coding.produced to incorrect value is in decode_coding, around
line 7176:

      else
	{
	  /* Record unprocessed bytes in coding->carryover.  We are
	     sure that the number of data is less than the size of
	     coding->carryover.  */
	  unsigned char *p = coding->carryover;

	  if (nbytes > sizeof coding->carryover)
	    nbytes = sizeof coding->carryover;
	  coding->carryover_bytes = nbytes;
	  while (nbytes-- > 0)
	    *p++ = *src++;
	}
      coding->consumed = coding->src_bytes; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

This last assignment then causes produce_chars to set
coding->produced to an incorrect value:

      /* Source characters are at coding->source.  */
      const unsigned char *src = coding->source;
      const unsigned char *src_end = src + coding->consumed; <<<<<<<<<<<<
      ...
	  produced_chars = coding->consumed_char;
	  while (src < src_end)
	    *dst++ = *src++;
	}
    }

  produced = dst - (coding->destination + coding->produced);  <<<<<<<<<<<
  if (BUFFERP (coding->dst_object) && produced_chars > 0)
    insert_from_gap (produced_chars, produced);
  coding->produced += produced; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  coding->produced_char += produced_chars;

I don't understand the logic of "carryover" in decode_coding well
enough to decide how to fix it.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
d:/gnu/bzr/emacs/trunk/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-02-02 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1255
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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Message #8 received at 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10701: 24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:56:38 +0100

(with-temp-buffer
  (let ((coding-system-for-read 'undecided-dos))
    (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
    (shell-command "yes 'a\r'" t)))

Andreas.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10701: 24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:54 +0800

On 2012-02-03 16:56 +0800, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> (with-temp-buffer
>   (let ((coding-system-for-read 'undecided-dos))
>     (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
>     (shell-command "yes 'a\r'" t)))

Crash emacs 23.4 as well!

Leo

Message #14 received at 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10701: 24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0900

In article <m2liokcn21.fsf <at> igel.home>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> (with-temp-buffer
>   (let ((coding-system-for-read 'undecided-dos))
>     (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
>     (shell-command "yes 'a\r'" t)))

I've just installed a fix to emacs-23 branch.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org

Message #19 received at 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#10701: 24.0.93; Crash while decoding input with DOS EOLs
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:05:15 +0200

> From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, 10701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0900
> 
> In article <m2liokcn21.fsf <at> igel.home>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > (with-temp-buffer
> >   (let ((coding-system-for-read 'undecided-dos))
> >     (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
> >     (shell-command "yes 'a\r'" t)))
> 
> I've just installed a fix to emacs-23 branch.

Thanks, confirmed.

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