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bug #45838: Memory corruption when recipe runs a batch file with spaces in path

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 27 Aug 2015 04:07:05 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  4.1 Operating System:  MS Windows
Fixed Release:  4.2 Triage Status:  Small Effort
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Wed 23 Sep 2015 08:47:07 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks.  Yes, this was because I misunderstood how memory is allocated for the argv[] array.

Now fixed the repository.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz>
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Thu 27 Aug 2015 07:21:48 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I didn't realize you could post bugs without an account. I submitted that one.

Jérôme Vuarand <doub>
Thu 27 Aug 2015 04:07:05 PM UTC, original submission:  

On 4.1, when trying to run a batch file from a recipe, and that batch file has a space in its path, strange command line corruption appears. The problem did not exist in 3.82.

I'm building make from sources on Windows with MSVC. I rebuilt in debug and ran the code through a debugger.

It turns out that the problem is in file sub_proc.c, in function process_begin, at line 725 (in 4.1 and current git head). The code wants to free argv[0] and replace it with something else. However all strings in argv are in a single memory block, so freeing argv[0] also frees subsequent argv[n] strings, and the memory doesn't always hold the argument content until they are used.

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    2015-09-23 eliz StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.2
        Triage StatusNone Small Effort
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