Bug 179549 - Pasting into XmTextField is unreliable
Summary: Pasting into XmTextField is unreliable
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openmotif
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Thomas Woerner
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Blocks: 180362 181409 405941
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-01 11:23 UTC by Ron Yorston
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0292
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-08-10 21:17:04 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Proposed patch (1.51 KB, patch)
2006-02-01 11:23 UTC, Ron Yorston
no flags Details | Diff
Revised patch after code review. (1.82 KB, patch)
2006-02-01 17:03 UTC, Thomas Woerner
no flags Details | Diff
Revised patch to handle clipboard (2.11 KB, patch)
2006-02-06 14:57 UTC, Ron Yorston
no flags Details | Diff
testcase (3.66 KB, text/plain)
2006-02-06 16:42 UTC, Ron Yorston
no flags Details


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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2006:0292 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE openmotif bug fix update 2006-08-09 04:00:00 UTC

Description Ron Yorston 2006-02-01 11:23:38 UTC
Description of problem:

We're using a UTF-8 locale and have a modify verify callback on our XmTextField
widgets.  In this environment selecting text and pasting it into an XmTextField
is unreliable:  sometimes nothing happens and sometimes garbage is appended to
the pasted text.  Everything works properly in the C locale or if there's no
modify verify callback.

Running the application under valgrind shows a couple of memory problems related
to the issue:

In TextFSel.c, around line 1100, the array wc_value is one character too short.

In TextF.c, around line 2934, the size of the array insert_orig is specified
using tf->text.max_char_size, whereas the documentation indicates that insert is
an array of wchar_t.  In our UTF-8 locale tf->text.max_char_size is 6 while
sizeof(wchar_t) is 4, so the bcopy at line 2935 is fetching data from beyond the
end of the array insert.

I've produced a patch which I think fixes these issues.  With this patch we can
paste text into our application reliably and valgrind is happy.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.2.3-9.RHEL4.1, though other versions are affected


How reproducible:


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Expected results:


Additional info:

I've raised this issue upstream at:

   http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1321

Comment 1 Ron Yorston 2006-02-01 11:23:38 UTC
Created attachment 123954 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2006-02-01 17:03:39 UTC
Created attachment 123975 [details]
Revised patch after code review.

This patch honors the text.max_char_size for generation of insert_orig in the
same way as ModifyVerify does.

Comment 3 Ron Yorston 2006-02-01 21:38:20 UTC
Thanks for the revised patch, Thomas.  I've tried it with my test program and it
seems to work nicely.  Valgrind is now happy in both UTF-8 and C locales.

Comment 4 Ron Yorston 2006-02-06 14:55:56 UTC
On further investigation I find that previous patches don't work if the
clipboard selection is used rather than the primary selection  (for example,
because XmTextFieldPaste has been called).  In this case ds->value (TextFSel.c
line 1102) isn't null terminated.  I've made a new patch to cover this case.

Comment 5 Ron Yorston 2006-02-06 14:57:54 UTC
Created attachment 124259 [details]
Revised patch to handle clipboard

Comment 6 Thomas Woerner 2006-02-06 16:07:28 UTC
Please attach your test case.

Comment 7 Ron Yorston 2006-02-06 16:42:49 UTC
Created attachment 124266 [details]
testcase

Here's a hacked version of one of the examples from the O'Reilly Motif book
that should illustrate the problem.  I've changed the XmText widget in the
original to XmTextField.

Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-10 21:17:05 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0292.html



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