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Crash in Fjson_parse_buffer: ZV changes underneath it?

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From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, 77325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77325: Crash in Fjson_parse_buffer: ZV changes underneath it?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:00:24 +0000

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:05:22 +0000
>> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org> writes:
>>
>> > Didn't have a good repro.  Pip's fix works though.  I was barking up
>> > the wrong tree: I'm parsing JSON out of a process buffer in a loop and
>> > dispatching commands as they come in. One of these commands switched the
>> > buffer, so in the next iteration of the loop, I started parsing JSON out
>> > of some other random buffer.  It just so happened that other buffer was
>> > narrowed, so we crashed.  I'll let Pip do the honors of checking in the
>> > fix if he wants.
>>
>> Eli, is that okay?  I'll simplify the else branch, which has an
>> unnecessary "else if" in the original patch.
>
> Can we discuss why you don't simply replace Z with ZV and BEG with
> BEGV?  I'm not sure I understand some parts of the change you
> proposed.

Because the code assumes GPT <= Z, and GPT <= ZV isn't always true.

Pip

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