Re: [Lynx-dev] ASAN/UBSAN issues

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:25:33PM +0100, Gisle Vanem via Lynx-dev wrote:
> I found some ASAN+UBSAN issues after building the
> latest GitHub snapshot [1] of Lynx on Windows.
> 
> I used 'clang-cl -fsanitize=address -fsanitize-recover=address
>                  -fsanitize=undefined'
> 
> First the ASAN issue:
>   src/GridText.c:915:12: runtime error: applying zero offset to null pointer
>   SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior 
> src/GridText.c:915:12
> 
> Fixed by:
>   --- a/src/GridText.c 2023-02-18 11:10:31
>   +++ b/src/GridText.c 2023-06-30 10:08:49
>   @@ -912,6 +912,7 @@
>           result = a->lites.hl_info[count - 1].hl_text;
>        else
>           result = a->lites.hl_base.hl_text;
>   +    if (result)
>            result += LYAdjHiTextPos(a, count);
>        return result;
> 
> then this UBSAN ("Undefined Behavior Sanitizer") issue:
> 
>   src/LYMainLoop.c:6809:27: runtime error: index -1 out of bounds for type 
> 'LinkInfo[1024]'
>   SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior 
> src/LYMainLoop.c:6809:27 in
>   =================================================================
>   ==12236==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address 
> 0x7ff774780160 at
>   pc 0x7ffc6cc271bb bp 0x005d7ab3d200 sp 0x005d7ab3c990
>   READ of size 96 at 0x7ff774780160 thread T0
>       #0 0x7ffc6cc271ba in __asan_memcpy 
> D:\a\_work\1\s\src\vctools\asan\llvm\compiler-rt\lib\asan\asan_interceptors_memintrinsics.cpp:22
>       #1 0x7ff77371e477 in mainloop 
> F:\MinGW32\src\inet\Web\Lynx\src\LYMainLoop.c:6809
>       #2 0x7ff77370d88c in main F:\MinGW32\src\inet\Web\Lynx\src\LYMain.c:2276
>       #3 0x7ff773e23c67 in invoke_main 
> D:\a\_work\1\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:78
>       #4 0x7ff773e23c67 in __scrt_common_main_seh 
> D:\a\_work\1\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288
>       #5 0x7ffcd7fe7613  (C:\Windows\System32\KERNEL32.DLL+0x180017613)
>       #6 0x7ffcd88026f0  (C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll+0x1800526f0)
> 
> Fixed by:
>   --- a/src/LYMainLoop.c 2023-02-18 11:10:31
>   +++ b/src/LYMainLoop.c 2023-06-30 10:14:17
>   @@ -6774,7 +6774,7 @@
>            * If help is not on the screen, then put a message on the screen to
>            * tell the user other misc info.
>            */
>   -       if (!show_help) {
>   +       if (!show_help && curdoc.link >= 0) {
>               show_main_statusline(links[curdoc.link],
>                                    ((curlink_is_editable &&
>                                      textinput_activated)
> ----------------
> 
> (the line-numbers count be off since I've made other
> unrelated patches locally).
> 
> I was sure I've posted this before somewhere. Apparently not.

I seem to recall something mentioning clang on Windows,
but don't see it offhand in the mail archive.

The last I see from you with a patch was in dev.11

(these fixes look ok, and I happen to be working on Lynx this week).

> So I was thinking of creating an issue for this on Github, but
> there's no 'issue page' there! Why not Tom?

Bug reports have "always" gone to the mailing list.

When I'm working on Lynx, I use that information.

Few bug reports provide patches,
whether or not a bug-reporting system is used.
 
> [1] https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots.git

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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