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27.2; Crash with specific mode-line-format in BiDi processing

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: <martin.bruestel <at> tu-dresden.de>
Cc: 49562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49562: 27.2; Crash with specific mode-line-format in BiDi processing
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:10:49 +0300

> From: <martin.bruestel <at> tu-dresden.de>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:40:57 +0200
> 
> Emacs crashed when visiting specific pages in a browser using EXWM.
> Turns out this was triggered when the buffer was renamed accordingly.
> During redisplay, the crash happens for certain strings which are set as
> `mode-line-format`.  I created an example to reproduce this with a stock
> Emacs configuration, see the attached elisp file.  For me, this only
> triggers when the window is large enough, I suspect smaller windows will
> prevent the problematic part of the mode-line-format string to be
> processed.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> 1. Start Emacs using 'emacs' (not tested with 'emacs -Q')
> 2. Maximize Frame
> 3. M-x ielm
> 4. (load "/path/to/attached/break-emacs.el")
> 5. M-x crash-test-mode-line-format
> 6. Observe crash

The "evil" mode-line string includes invalid use of bidi formatting
controls: you have there a U+202A LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING without a
matching U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING.  Removing the former or
adding the latter avoids the crash.

I will look into avoiding the crash even with the unbalanced control
characters.  I guess this imbalance triggers a subtle bug somewhere,
which is somehow related to the use of (space (:align-to ...)) display
spec.  Hmm...

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