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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-08-17 13:01:49 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-08-21 16:51:15 -0700
commitdb4cf31d1d6c1d09bce93986aa993818ea7b17cf (patch)
treef367f6475c53dce6db3af2e08d1636434c358b65 /pp.h
parent4de11f42927eb30078d1fff64267e8d0b12d0fa3 (diff)
downloadperl-db4cf31d1d6c1d09bce93986aa993818ea7b17cf.tar.gz
Fix format closure bug with redefined outer sub
CVs close over their outer CVs. So, when you write: my $x = 52; sub foo { sub bar { sub baz { $x } } } baz’s CvOUTSIDE pointer points to bar, bar’s CvOUTSIDE points to foo, and foo’s to the main cv. When the inner reference to $x is looked up, the CvOUTSIDE chain is followed, and each sub’s pad is looked at to see if it has an $x. (This happens at compile time.) It can happen that bar is undefined and then redefined: undef &bar; eval 'sub bar { my $x = 34 }'; After this, baz will still refer to the main cv’s $x (52), but, if baz had ‘eval '$x'’ instead of just $x, it would see the new bar’s $x. (It’s not really a new bar, as its refaddr is the same, but it has a new body.) This particular case is harmless, and is obscure enough that we could define it any way we want, and it could still be considered correct. The real problem happens when CVs are cloned. When a CV is cloned, its name pad already contains the offsets into the parent pad where the values are to be found. If the outer CV has been undefined and redefined, those pad offsets can be com- pletely bogus. Normally, a CV cannot be cloned except when its outer CV is running. And the outer CV cannot have been undefined without also throwing away the op that would have cloned the prototype. But formats can be cloned when the outer CV is not running. So it is possible for cloned formats to close over bogus entries in a new parent pad. In this example, \$x gives us an array ref. It shows ARRAY(0xbaff1ed) instead of SCALAR(0xdeafbee): sub foo { my $x; format = @ ($x,warn \$x)[0] . } undef &foo; eval 'sub foo { my @x; write }'; foo __END__ And if the offset that the format’s pad closes over is beyond the end of the parent’s new pad, we can even get a crash, as in this case: eval 'sub foo {' . '{my ($a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h,$i,$j,$k,$l,$m,$n,$o,$p,$q,$r,$s,$t,$u)}'x999 . q| my $x; format = @ ($x,warn \$x)[0] . } |; undef &foo; eval 'sub foo { my @x; my $x = 34; write }'; foo(); __END__ So now, instead of using CvROOT to identify clones of CvOUTSIDE(format), we use the padlist ID instead. Padlists don’t actually have an ID, so we give them one. Any time a sub is cloned, the new padlist gets the same ID as the old. The format needs to remember what its outer sub’s padlist ID was, so we put that in the padlist struct, too.
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diff --git a/pp.h b/pp.h
index 1b29739bb0..46f574271f 100644
--- a/pp.h
+++ b/pp.h
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ True if this op will be the return value of an lvalue subroutine
# define MAYBE_DEREF_GV(sv) MAYBE_DEREF_GV_flags(sv,SV_GMAGIC)
# define MAYBE_DEREF_GV_nomg(sv) MAYBE_DEREF_GV_flags(sv,0)
-# define FIND_RUNCV_root_eq 1
+# define FIND_RUNCV_padid_eq 1
# define FIND_RUNCV_level_eq 2
#endif