New submission from Max DeLiso: hi.
if you cross compile the mercurial native extensions against python 2.7.5 (x64) on 64 bit windows 7 and then try to clone something, it will crash. I believe the reason for this is that the c runtime functions in the microsoft crt will throw a win32 exception if they are given invalid parameters, and since the return value of fileno() is not checked in Objects/fileobject.c, if a file handle is passed to fileno and the result is not a valid file descriptor, that invalid decriptor will get passed to _fstat64i32, an invalid parameter exception will be raised, and the program will crash. here's the function with the alleged bug: static PyFileObject* dircheck(PyFileObject* f) { #if defined(HAVE_FSTAT) && defined(S_IFDIR) && defined(EISDIR) struct stat buf; if (f->f_fp == NULL) return f; if (fstat(fileno(f->f_fp), &buf) == 0 && // this line is the problem, fileno's return value never gets checked S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)) { char *msg = strerror(EISDIR); PyObject *exc = PyObject_CallFunction(PyExc_IOError, "(isO)", EISDIR, msg, f->f_name); PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_IOError, exc); Py_XDECREF(exc); return NULL; } #endif return f; } here's the stack trace: > msvcr90.dll!_invalid_parameter() Unknown msvcr90.dll!_fstat64i32() Unknown python27.dll!dircheck(PyFileObject * f) Line 127 C python27.dll!fill_file_fields(PyFileObject * f, _iobuf * fp, _object * name, char * mode, int (_iobuf *) * close) Line 183 C python27.dll!PyFile_FromFile(_iobuf * fp, char * name, char * mode, int (_iobuf *) * close) Line 484 C here's a dump summary: Dump Summary ------------ Process Name: python.exe : c:\Python27\python.exe Process Architecture: x64 Exception Code: 0xC0000417 Exception Information: Heap Information: Present about the patch: the attached patch fixes that behavior and doesn't break any test cases on windows or linux. it applies against the current trunk of cpython. the return value of fileno should get checked for correctness anyways, even on *nix. the extra overhead is tiny, (one comparison and a conditional jump and a few extra bytes of stack space), but you do catch some weird edge cases. here are the steps to reproduce: download the python 2.7.5 installer for windows download the mercurial 2.6.2 source release build the native extensions with 64 bit microsoft compilers try to hg clone any remote repo (it should crash) here are some version strings: Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 17.00.60315.1 for x64 mercurial 2.6.2 here are some links: in particular, read the bits about the invalid parameter exception: _fsta64i32: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/221w8e43%28v=vs.80%29.aspx _fileno: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/zs6wbdhx%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Please let me know if my patch needs work or if I missed something. Thanks! ---------- components: IO files: fileobject_fix.patch hgrepos: 199 keywords: patch messages: 191012 nosy: maxdeliso priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: insufficient error checking causes crash on windows type: crash versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30552/fileobject_fix.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18197> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com