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29.0.50; ASAN use-after-free in re_match_2_internal

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 58042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Subject: bug#58042: 29.0.50; ASAN use-after-free in re_match_2_internal
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:05:07 +0800

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I'm going to guess that window_sub_list is returning a window that was
>> not marked during GC.  It's a problem that also exists with my
>> incremental garbage collector.  Does this help?
>>
>> diff --git a/src/alloc.c b/src/alloc.c
>> index 419c5e558b..522925d248 100644
>> --- a/src/alloc.c
>> +++ b/src/alloc.c
>> @@ -6634,6 +6634,9 @@ mark_window (struct Lisp_Vector *ptr)
>>        mark_glyph_matrix (w->desired_matrix);
>>      }
>>  
>> +  if (w->next)
>> +    mark_window (w->next);
>> +
>>    /* Filter out killed buffers from both buffer lists
>>       in attempt to help GC to reclaim killed buffers faster.
>>       We can do it elsewhere for live windows, but this is the
>
> Indeed, that seems to work!

Could you please replace that code with:

  if (!NILP (w->next)
      && !vectorlike_marked_p (&XWINDOW (w->next)->header))
    emacs_abort ();

And see if Emacs ever aborts?

I just remembered that the old garbage collector does not work the same
way as the one in my branch, so that bug shouldn't be possible.

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