I had thought that because `g_source_destroy()` was called for the two
sources (cancel and timeout) in the `GTask` finalize function for a
threaded resolver operation, that it would be fine to use a plain
pointer in the source callbacks to point to the `GTask`.
That turns out to not be true: because the source callbacks are executed
in the GLib worker thread, and the `GTask` can be finalized in another
thread, it’s possible for a source callback (e.g. `cancelled_cb()`) to
be scheduled in the worker thread, then for the `GTask` to be finalized,
and then the source callback to continue execution and find itself
doing a use-after-free.
Fix that by using a weak ref to the `GTask` in the source callbacks,
rather than a plain pointer.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Fixes: #3105
The gutils-user-database.c is broken in two ways and currently doesn't test anything:
* It only overrides getpwuid, where the implementation used getpwnam_r if it exist, which should be every system for at least 20 years.
* It only partly cargo-culted setting the environment for the local and installed tests, but failed to actually set the environment for either.
Before commit 71b7efd08a, `GKeyFile`
incorrectly allowed invalid escape sequences: it would treat the
sequence as a literal, set a `GError`, but not return failure from the
function. So if a caller was explicitly checking for returned `GError`s,
they could detect the invalid escape; but if they were just checking the
function’s return value, they’d miss it.
This is not correct use of `GError`, and the [Desktop Entry
Spec](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s04.html)
doesn’t allow for invalid escape sequences to be accepted. So it’s wrong
in both ways.
However, the commit above changed this behaviour without realising it,
quite close to the 2.78 stable release deadline. There are numerous key
files in the wild which use invalid escape sequences, and it’s too late
in the cycle to ‘break’ parsing of all of them.
So, for now, revert to the old behaviour for invalid escape sequences,
and give people another cycle to adapt to the changes. This will likely
mean they end up calling `g_key_file_get_value()` rather than
`g_key_file_get_string()`. See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3098 for tracking
re-enabling the error handling for invalid escape sequences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Fixes: #3095
See: #3098
pthread_exit() is also marked noreturn, and the function does not in
fact return.
For win32, I can't find a copy of the header file to check if
_endthreadex() is marked with __declspec(noreturn), but its
documentation does say that it never returns.
When parsing a line of "key3=foo\i\" in a keyfile,
g_key_file_parse_value_as_string currently first sets the error to
'contains invalid escape' and later to 'contains escape character at end
of line'.
This leaks the first GError and causes the following warning message:
Error set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is
NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Key file
contains escape character at end of line
Fix this by returning when an error is detected. As we may have
collected data in pieces, we instead collect to a tmp_pieces GSList and
free it on error.
