From: "normalperson (Eric Wong)" <normalperson@...>
Date: 2013-02-25T21:54:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52876] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7957][Open] rb_str_modify() does not prevent shared string from rb_str_set_len()


Issue #7957 has been reported by normalperson (Eric Wong).

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Bug #7957: rb_str_modify() does not prevent shared string from rb_str_set_len()
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7957

Author: normalperson (Eric Wong)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-linux]


unicorn HTTP chunk parser may raise "can't set length of shared string (RuntimeError)" in rb_str_set_len().
However, it does call rb_str_modify() before calling rb_str_set_len().

To reproduce:
git clone git://bogomips.org/unicorn
cd unicorn
gem install isolate # needed for unicorn dependencies
git reset --hard v4.6.1
make http # build HTTP parser (needs ragel installed: apt-get install ragel)
ruby -I lib str_modify.rb # failure, raises

# apply unicorn_http.patch
patch -p1 < unicorn_http.patch
make http # rebuild parser
ruby -I lib str_modify.rb # success (no output)

In my proposed patch, I call rb_str_resize() instead of rb_str_set_len() and that seems to
work around the issue.  I even call rb_str_modify() an extra time before rb_str_set_len(),
but rb_str_set_len() still raises...






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