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27.0.60; next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.60

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40000: closed (Re: bug#40000: 27.0.60; next-single-char-property-change
 hangs on bad argument)
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:30:02 +0000
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Your bug report

#40000: 27.0.60; next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com, 40000-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40000: 27.0.60;
 next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:29:16 +0300
> From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com,  40000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 16:04:50 +0200
> 
> I'm attaching an updated patch.

Thanks, pushed to the master branch, and closing the bug.

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From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
To: Bug Report Emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 27.0.60; next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 11:40:01 -0400
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If I pass a LIMIT > point-max to next-single-char-property-change, Emacs hangs. Of course, I shouldn’t pass such a bad argument, but next-single-char-property-change should probably error out instead of hanging in a infinite loop IMHO.

Here is the relevant C code:

	while (true)
	  {
	    position = Fnext_char_property_change (position, limit);
	    if (XFIXNAT (position) >= XFIXNAT (limit))
	      {
		position = limit;
		break;
	      }

	    value = Fget_char_property (position, prop, object);
	    if (!EQ (value, initial_value))
	      break;
	  }

If it gets a LIMIT larger than point-max, position can never == limit, so it will loop in the while loop infinitely. I would add a check in the beginning of the function, to signal an out-of-range error. Or maybe set limit to poin-max quietly. Other similar functions could have the same problem, previous-single-char-property-change comes to my mind.

Yuan

In GNU Emacs 27.0.60 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0, NS appkit-1894.30 Version 10.15.3 (Build 19D76))
of 2020-02-25 built on missSilver
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