[webkit-qt] possible bug in TextBreakIteratorQt.cpp ?

[Antonio Gomes]

Maybe related: 39958 ? <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39958>

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Baldeva, Arpit <abaldeva at ea.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Occasionally I get a crash in following code in TextBreakIterator*
> setUpIterator(TextBreakIterator& iterator, QTextBoundaryFinder::BoundaryType
> type, const UChar* string, int length).
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> if (iterator.isValid() && type == iterator.type() && length ==
> iterator.length
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>             && memcmp(string, iterator.string, length) == 0) {
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>             iterator.toStart();
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>             return &iterator;
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>         }
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> It seems to me that iterator.string could be holding a stale pointer simply
> because it was a cached pointer from the last caller. I have not followed
> all the places in the code that calls this function to make sure that all
> the callers are holding the past UChar* but it seems unsafe to trust this
> pointer.
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>
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> Anyone familiar with this code has an idea?
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> Thanks.
>
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