[PATCH] Fix `Bad address` when running `cmd /c [...]`

Johannes Schindelin johannes.schindelin@gmx.de
Fri Oct 21 21:37:35 GMT 2022


In 2b4f986e49 (Cygwin: pty: Treat *.bat and *.cmd as a non-cygwin
console app., 2022-07-31), we introduced a bug fix that specifically
looks for a suffix of the command's file name.

However, that file name might be set to `NULL`, namely when
`null_app_name == true`, which is the case when we detected a
command-line `cmd /c [...]`.

But the commit mentioned above did not account for that possibility,
instead assuming that it always has to check the file name for a `.bat`
or `.cmd` suffix. As a consequence, `cmd /c [...]` invocations are
completely broken in v3.3.6, resulting in a `Bad address` error.

Let's guard the code properly so that it does not try to look at the
file name suffix of `(WCHAR *)NULL`.

This fixes https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/issues/108

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime/releases/tag/fix-bad-address-in-cmd-invocation-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime fix-bad-address-in-cmd-invocation-v1

 winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
index d9d7716519..d4e7f10e2b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ is_console_app (WCHAR *filename)
   char *p = (char *) memmem (buf, n, "PE\0\0", 4);
   if (p && p + id_offset < buf + n)
     return p[id_offset] == '\003'; /* 02: GUI, 03: console */
-  else
+  else if (filename)
     {
       wchar_t *e = wcsrchr (filename, L'.');
       if (e && (wcscasecmp (e, L".bat") == 0 || wcscasecmp (e, L".cmd") == 0))

base-commit: 1ca46b22d6edb3d469b51475e8b096d86deaac67
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2.38.1.windows.1


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