Bug 1833756 - Crash when creating a new terminal over D-Bus and immediately using the GSimpleAction to create a second one
Summary: Crash when creating a new terminal over D-Bus and immediately using the GSimp...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Debarshi Ray
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1882972 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-10 10:01 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2021-05-31 15:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-05-31 15:17:50 UTC
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Description Christian Persch 2020-05-10 10:01:49 UTC
Description of problem:

Crash, likely due to fedora patch. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0:3.36.1.1-1.fc32

How reproducible:
Unknown.

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Actual results:
Crrash.

Expected results:
No crash.

Additional info:

Backtrace at https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/2887474/ shows terminal_screen_reexec_from_screen_with_override_command produces a SEGV. This function is only present in the fedora patch, not upstream.

My first guess would be that parent_screen->priv->exec_data is NULL when it's being dereferenced.

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Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2021-05-18 18:14:54 UTC
*** Bug 1882972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Debarshi Ray 2021-05-19 00:44:51 UTC
Things have changed a bit since GNOME Terminal 3.36.1.1 because of this commit:
  Revert "screen: Use clean env when creating new tab"

The crash should no longer happen unless the terminal is running a Toolbox shell inside it.

However, I think it's still worth fixing this crash for the Toolbox shell case.

As far as I can make out, the priv->exec_data of a TerminalScreen can only be NULL between creating the TerminalScreen instance with terminal_screen_new and executing a child in it with terminal_screen_exec. There are only two code paths where this happens - one when a new terminal is created from an existing terminal using the keyboard shortcuts or menus (ie., the GSimpleAction), and the other when creating a new terminal using the app menu or the gnome-terminal client (ie., over D-Bus).

As far as I can make out, a terminal created through the GSimpleAction executes a child in one single synchronous step. Therefore, it's not possible for it to be a parent TerminalScreen with a NULL priv->exec_data.

However, one that's created over D-Bus might have a NULL priv->exec_data between the successive D-Bus calls to o.g.Terminal.Factory:CreateInstance and o.g.Terminal.Receiver:Exec.

So, I think what happened here is that someone created a new terminal over D-Bus and then immediately used the GSimpleAction to create a second one from it between the two D-Bus calls.

Comment 4 Debarshi Ray 2021-05-19 00:55:06 UTC
We are only interested in the parent TerminalScreen's priv->exec_data when a Toolbox shell is running inside it. That implies that priv->exec_data can't be NULL because a child (ie., toolbox enter ...) has already been executed inside it. Otherwise, we wouldn't know that a Toolbox shell is running inside it.

Therefore, I think it would be sufficient to add a g_return_* assertion to express this assumption, and that the crash is actually fixed already.

Comment 5 Debarshi Ray 2021-05-31 15:17:50 UTC
I have updated the patches accordingly in Fedora >= 33. Since the crash is effectively fixed already, I held off from doing any builds except for Rawhide.


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