Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55305&edit=1
ID: 55305
Patch added by: cataphr...@php.net
Reported by: yaa...@php.net
Summary: ref lost: 1st ref instantiated in class def, 2nd ref
made w/o instantiating
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: ALL
PHP Version: 5.4SVN-2011-07-27 (SVN)
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The following patch has been added/updated:
Patch Name: bug55305.patch
Revision: 1311813002
URL:
https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=55305&patch=bug55305.patch&revision=1311813002
Previous Comments:
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[2011-07-27 23:32:55] yaa...@php.net
Description:
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Reference is lost, causing segfault and/or oddities when primary reference is
edited after secondary is edited.
Occurs only when the variable name is instantiated in the class definition, and
the second reference is not instantiated before it is made. Possible
workarounds
include:
Instantiate neither variable name in the class definition
Instantiate both variable names in the class definition
Instantiate secondary variable name before making it a reference to the first:
$this->bar = nil;
$this->bar =& $this->foo;
The bug is new to 5.4.
Test script:
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<?php
class Foo {
var $foo; # bug present
function __construct(){
$this->foo = '';
$this->bar =& $this->foo;
}
function dump(){
echo 'foo: ';var_dump($this->foo);
echo 'bar: ';var_dump($this->bar);
}
}
$f = new Foo();
$f->dump();
$f->foo .= 'foo';
$f->dump();
$f->bar .= 'bar';
$f->dump();
$f->foo .= 'foo';
$f->dump();
?>
Expected result:
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foo: string(0) ""
bar: string(0) ""
foo: string(3) "bar"
bar: string(3) "bar"
foo: string(6) "barfoo"
bar: string(6) "barfoo"
Actual result:
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varies from platform to platform
On Windows:
foo: string(0) ""
bar: NULL
foo: string(3) "foo"
bar: NULL
foo: UNKNOWN:0
bar: string(3) "bar"
CRASH
On Linux (Ubuntu 11.04):
foo: string(0) ""
bar: NULL
foo: NULL
bar: string(3) "bar"
foo: string(3) "foo"
bar: string(3) "???"
where ?? is 3 seemingly-random bytes.
OR, if an additional one-or-three-parameter method is defined in the class
(even
if it is not called):
string(0) ""
NULL
NULL
Segmentation fault
If the uncalled method has a different number of arguments, it generates a
zend_mm_heap_corrupted instead
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