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Message-ID: <CAEh9MGS=03a9_MMQTC6U1SVkf5FKSVUE26bMJizwrckHzBWfMw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:56:56 +0300
From: Maks Mishin <maks.mishinfz@...il.com>
To: alice <alice@...ya.dev>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] iconv: Add check null-check for scd pointer

Alice, that's right.

Rich, I'm sorry, but it's now always possible to test a particular function.
Can you tell me how you are testing the library?
This will help me make more meaningful patches.

пн, 25 мар. 2024 г. в 11:53, alice <alice@...ya.dev>:

> On Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM UTC, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 10:25:03PM +0300, Maks Mishin wrote:
> > > After having been assigned to a NULL value at iconv.c:230,
> > > pointer 'scd' is dereferenced at iconv.c:383.
> > >
> > > Found by RASU JSC.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Maks Mishin <maks.mishinFZ@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >  src/locale/iconv.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/src/locale/iconv.c b/src/locale/iconv.c
> > > index 7fb2e1ef..e0d200b8 100644
> > > --- a/src/locale/iconv.c
> > > +++ b/src/locale/iconv.c
> > > @@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **restrict in,
> size_t *restrict inb, char **restri
> > >             scd = (void *)cd;
> > >             cd = scd->base_cd;
> > >     }
> > > +   if (scd == NULL) return x;
> > > +
> > >     unsigned to = extract_to(cd);
> > >     unsigned from = extract_from(cd);
> > >     const unsigned char *map = charmaps+from+1;
> > > --
> > > 2.30.2
> >
> > This makes iconv non-functional for non-stateful conversions. The
> > claim by the static analysis tool is false. It is not dereferenced in
> > the code path where it's null because in that code path,
> > type==ISO2022_JP is never true.
> >
> > This tool you are using is really junk. You should stop sending
> > untested and obviously incorrect patches to projects, and advise any
> > projects that have accepted your patches that they may have been
> > dangerously incorrect.
>
> I'm pretty sure RASU JSC is not a tool but rather the Rusatom State Atomic
> Corporation JSC, i.e. a branch at the Russian atomic energy company.
>
> >
> > Rich
>
>

-- 
С уважением,
Максим Мишин
+7 (915) 958-41-07
maks.mishinFZ@...il.com

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