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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow(1) iconv(3) Bug if Multibyte Straddles Buffer E


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow(1) iconv(3) Bug if Multibyte Straddles Buffer End.
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:31:50 +0100

Hi David,

> Might Ken's commit adfed5f72bc07ac7de8dfc62188338d4d4f25a38 have fixed
> this?

Yes, indeed.  I get identical output from iconv(1) and mhshow(1) with
the function from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/uip/mhshowsbr.c.

> +       if (errno == EINVAL) {
> +           /* middle of multi-byte sequence */
> +           if (write (fd, dest_buffer, outbytes_before - outbytes) < 0) {
> +               advise (dest, "write");
> +           }
> +           fseeko (*fp, -inbytes, SEEK_CUR);

Interestingly, that seeking back by the 1 unprocessed byte of input so
the top-of-loop's fread can take another whole 8KiB triggers

    fseeko(0xaf20d0, -1, 1, 0x7f1c02ff3530 <unfinished ...>
    SYS_lseek(3, 4096, 0)                = 4096
    SYS_read(3, "\315\273\n5)"..., 4095) = 4095
    <... fseeko resumed> )               = 0
    __fread_chk(0x7fff69f40800, 8192, 1, 8192 <unfinished ...>

IOW, it seeks to 4Ki and reads 4Ki - 1 so it's left in the right place
to read the one byte, that we already have, next time.  An alternative
to sliding down the remaining unprocessed input with memmove(3) and
shortening the next fread, I suppose.

`strace -e desc mhparam foo' shows many lseek(2)s to get the current
position on .mh_profile;  always the same.  Triggered by the infamous
m_getfld()'s ftello(3).  :-)  Must trigger for every header of every
email processed too.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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