Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CAPG2z0-VUJ96WvvR3Jn4q20Gd3CUKGqtUOMBZ-_ENWfvbt47aw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:11:08 +0800
From: He X <xw897002528@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: a bug in bindtextdomain() and strip '.UTF-8'

sry, i uploaded the wront patch, it should be int cat, rather than struct
msgcat :/

2017-02-12 14:56 GMT+08:00 He X <xw897002528@...il.com>:

> 1. cat is added to the keys, also do a validate
> 2. so we what do we deal with the gettextdir() exactly? inline it or
> construct a gettextpointer()?
> 3. i added a extra locbuf array, and goto is replaced by a loop, memcpy is
> replaced by snprintf, compiled, and working well with fcitx
> 4. i just found that i forgot to store the keys to new buffer, it's ok to
> just use normal expression? or we need atomic operations?
> ```
> + p->cat = category;
> + p->binding = q;
> + p->lm = lm;
> ```
> 5.  I do want to rewrite all to .UTF8, but it's a bit annoying as your
> words, then i changed the code to simply strip.
>
> >  (safe for the user's terminal)
> LANG is set by users who are using musl and it's modified to zh_CN at
> setlocale(), app will use UTF8 directly, there's no such situation where
> charset will cause troubles to users' terminal, except apps which get the
> LANG manually by getenv(). I have not seen such strange applications so
> far, and most apps only have the UTF8 translation files.
>
> For moving from glibc to musl, i think doing this way is good for now, we
> could delete it later, or just keep it forever. And most people won't use
> non-UTF8 at all, if they do use GBK, their app will even fallback to UTF8,
> because no translation files for GBK. So, it's not so dagerous, i think
> :).
>
> And for developers,  they should not use setlocale to detect the charset,
> this is wrong, nl_langinfo is the correct way. If they use, stripping will
> let their app know something went wrong.
>
> Strip .GBK or .UTF-8, so users would be happy that their old settings are
> working, developers will notice their mistakes that using setlocale() to
> validate charset is wrong. We get a lot more than failing the setlocale()
> and return C, the only bad thing is we need to care about a almost
> impossible event: an app directly getenv().
>
> 2017-02-12 10:34 GMT+08:00 Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 02:00:56PM +0800, He X wrote:
>> > --- a/src/locale/dcngettext.c 2017-02-06 14:39:17.860482624 +0000
>> > +++ b/src/locale/dcngettext.c 2017-02-06 14:39:17.860482624 +0000
>> > @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@
>> >       size_t map_size;
>> >       void *volatile plural_rule;
>> >       volatile int nplurals;
>> > -     char name[];
>> > +     struct binding *binding;
>> > +     struct __locale_map *lm;
>> >  };
>>
>> As stated in the reply to message body, I think you need the category
>> in the keying too, because there can be different .mo files loaded
>> depending on which category was requested.
>>
>> >  static char *dummy_gettextdomain()
>> > @@ -120,58 +122,87 @@
>> >       struct msgcat *p;
>> >       struct __locale_struct *loc = CURRENT_LOCALE;
>> >       const struct __locale_map *lm;
>> > -     const char *dirname, *locname, *catname;
>> > -     size_t dirlen, loclen, catlen, domlen;
>> > +     size_t domlen;
>> > +     struct binding *q;
>> >
>> >       if ((unsigned)category >= LC_ALL) goto notrans;
>> >
>> >       if (!domainname) domainname = __gettextdomain();
>> >
>> >       domlen = strnlen(domainname, NAME_MAX+1);
>> >       if (domlen > NAME_MAX) goto notrans;
>> >
>> > -     dirname = gettextdir(domainname, &dirlen);
>> > -     if (!dirname) goto notrans;
>> > +     for (q=bindings; q; q=q->next)
>> > +             if (!strcmp(q->domainname, domainname) && q->active)
>> > +                     break;
>> > +     if (!q) goto notrans;
>>
>> Looks ok. I had said this should be a function but it really doesn't
>> need to be; it's plenty simple inline.
>>
>> >       lm = loc->cat[category];
>> >       if (!lm) {
>> >  notrans:
>> >               return (char *) ((n == 1) ? msgid1 : msgid2);
>> >       }
>> > -     locname = lm->name;
>> > -
>> > -     catname = catnames[category];
>> > -     catlen = catlens[category];
>> > -     loclen = strlen(locname);
>> > -
>> > -     size_t namelen = dirlen+1 + loclen+1 + catlen+1 + domlen+3;
>> > -     char name[namelen+1], *s = name;
>> > -
>> > -     memcpy(s, dirname, dirlen);
>> > -     s[dirlen] = '/';
>> > -     s += dirlen + 1;
>> > -     memcpy(s, locname, loclen);
>> > -     s[loclen] = '/';
>> > -     s += loclen + 1;
>> > -     memcpy(s, catname, catlen);
>> > -     s[catlen] = '/';
>> > -     s += catlen + 1;
>> > -     memcpy(s, domainname, domlen);
>> > -     s[domlen] = '.';
>> > -     s[domlen+1] = 'm';
>> > -     s[domlen+2] = 'o';
>> > -     s[domlen+3] = 0;
>> >
>> >       for (p=cats; p; p=p->next)
>> > -             if (!strcmp(p->name, name))
>> > +             if (p->binding == q && p->lm == lm)
>> >                       break;
>>
>> && p->cat == category
>>
>> >       if (!p) {
>> > +             const char *dirname, *locname, *catname;
>> > +             size_t dirlen, loclen, catlen;
>> >               void *old_cats;
>> >               size_t map_size;
>> > +
>> > +             dirname = q->dirname;
>> > +             locname = lm->name;
>> > +             catname = catnames[category];
>> > +
>> > +             dirlen = q->dirlen;
>> > +             loclen = strlen(locname);
>> > +             catlen = catlens[category];
>>
>> Now that these are only computed once rather than per-call, optimizing
>> out strlen is probably not worthwhile anymore, but it doesn't really
>> hurt either. Not something you need to change, just a comment.
>>
>> > +
>> > +             size_t namelen = dirlen+1 + loclen+1 + catlen+1 +
>> domlen+3;
>> > +             char name[namelen+1], *s = name;
>> > +             char *str = name;
>> > +
>> > +             memcpy(s, dirname, dirlen);
>> > +             s[dirlen] = '/';
>> > +             s += dirlen + 1;
>> > +             memcpy(s, locname, loclen);
>> > +             s[loclen] = '/';
>> > +             s += loclen + 1;
>> > +skip_loc:
>> > +             memcpy(s, catname, catlen);
>> > +             s[catlen] = '/';
>> > +             s += catlen + 1;
>> > +             memcpy(s, domainname, domlen);
>> > +             s[domlen] = '.';
>> > +             s[domlen+1] = 'm';
>> > +             s[domlen+2] = 'o';
>> > +             s[domlen+3] = 0;
>>
>> Actually, now that this code is not a hot path, it should just be
>> using snprintf to construct the pathname, I think. It would be a lot
>> simpler and easier to ensure correctness.
>>
>> > +
>> >               const void *map = __map_file(name, &map_size);
>> > -             if (!map) goto notrans;
>> > +             if (!map) {
>> > +                     if (s = strchr(name+dirlen+1, '@')) {
>> > +                             *s++ = '/';
>> > +                             goto skip_loc;;
>> > +                     }
>> > +                     if ( str && (s = strchr(name+dirlen+1, '_')) &&
>> (s < strchr(name+dirlen+1, '/')) ) {
>> > +                             if (str = strchr(locname, '@')) {
>> > +                                     loclen += locname - str;
>> > +                                     memcpy(s, str, loclen);
>> > +                                     s[loclen] = '/';
>> > +                                     s += loclen + 1;
>> > +                                     str = 0;
>> > +                                     goto skip_loc;
>> > +                             } else {
>> > +                                     *s++ = '/';
>> > +                                     goto skip_loc;
>> > +                             }
>> > +                     }
>> > +                     goto notrans;
>> > +             }
>>
>> Using snprintf should also make it easy to get rid of the goto/retry
>> logic here, perhaps even with a 4-iteration loop and array of which
>> format modifications happen on each iteration.
>>
>> >               p = calloc(sizeof *p + namelen + 1, 1);
>> >               if (!p) {
>> >                       __munmap((void *)map, map_size);
>> >                       goto notrans;
>> > @@ -209,7 +209,6 @@
>> >               }
>> >               p->map = map;
>> >               p->map_size = map_size;
>> > -             memcpy(p->name, name, namelen+1);
>> >               do {
>> >                       old_cats = cats;
>> >                       p->next = old_cats;
>> > --- a/src/locale/locale_map.c 2017-02-06 14:39:17.797148750 +0000
>> > +++ b/src/locale/locale_map.c 2017-02-06 14:39:17.797148750 +0000
>> > @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
>> >       }
>> >
>> >       /* Limit name length and forbid leading dot or any slashes. */
>> > -     for (n=0; n<LOCALE_NAME_MAX && val[n] && val[n]!='/'; n++);
>> > -     if (val[0]=='.' || val[n]) val = "C.UTF-8";
>> > +     for (n=0; n<LOCALE_NAME_MAX && val[n] && val[n]!='/' &&
>> val[n]!='.'; n++);
>> > +     if (val[0]=='.' || (val[n] && val[n]!='.')) val = "C.UTF-8";
>> >       int builtin = (val[0]=='C' && !val[1])
>> >               || !strcmp(val, "C.UTF-8")
>> >               || !strcmp(val, "POSIX");
>>
>> This looks ok but might still need some tweaks. Should an input like
>> "zh_CN.GBK" get treated as "zh_CN" (thus outputting UTF-8 that might
>> appear as junk on the user's terminal) or as "C" (no localization)
>> with only ASCII characters (safe for the user's terminal), or even
>> cause setlocale to fail and return an error so that the application
>> can decide what to do? These are not technical comments on your patch
>> but policy matters the community should weigh in on.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
>

Content of type "text/html" skipped

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.