With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Kyzer]

Hello,

I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
subsequently accept.

* create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
* readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
* attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
* attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds

Here's a test case. Beware that it will delete everything in the
current directory.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
int main() {
  DIR *d;
  struct dirent *de;
  char *fname = "\xF4\x8F\xBF\xBF";

  // touch file
  fclose(fopen(fname, "wb"));

  // iterate through dir
  d = opendir(".");
  while ((de = readdir(d))) {
    if (de->d_name[0] == '.') continue;
    printf("unlink(%s) = %d\n", de->d_name, unlink(de->d_name));
  }
  closedir(d);

  // show that unlink works if you know the real filename
  printf("unlink(%s) = %d\n", fname, unlink(fname));
}

This outputs (piped through hexdump -C)

00000000  75 6e 6c 69 6e 6b 28 e2  8e b3 ed bf bf 29 20 3d  |unlink(......) =|
00000010  20 2d 31 0a 75 6e 6c 69  6e 6b 28 f4 8f bf bf 29  | -1.unlink(....)|
00000020  20 3d 20 30 0a                                    | = 0.|
00000025

e.g.

unlink(\xe2\x8e\xb3\xed\xbf\xbf) = -1
unlink(\xf4\x8f\xbf\xbf) = 0

This is with cygwin package 1.7.35

$ cygcheck -c cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
cygwin               1.7.35-1       OK


WIndows / DOS does not have the problem:

c:\test\t>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is ....-....

 Directory of c:\test\t

25/03/2015  14:30    <DIR>          .
25/03/2015  14:30    <DIR>          ..
25/03/2015  14:30                 0 ??
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  39,906,525,184 bytes free

c:\test\t>del *
c:\test\t\*, Are you sure (Y/N)? y

c:\test\t>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is ....-....

 Directory of c:\test\t

25/03/2015  14:31    <DIR>          .
25/03/2015  14:31    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  39,906,525,184 bytes free

Regards
Stuart

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Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Mar 25 14:34, Kyzer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
> UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
> subsequently accept.
> 
> * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
> * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
> * attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
> * attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds

Thanks for the testcase.  I'll have a look later this week (I hope).


Corinna

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Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen]

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Hi Stuart,

On Mar 30 13:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 25 14:34, Kyzer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
> > UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
> > subsequently accept.
> > 
> > * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
> > * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
> > * attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
> > * attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds
> 
> Thanks for the testcase.  I'll have a look later this week (I hope).

Wow.  Just wow.  You found a long-standing bug in the wctomb conversion
from UTF-16 to UTF-8.

As you probably know, Unicode values beyond the base plane (that is,
everything > 0xffff in UTF-32 and > ef bf bf in UTF-8 notation)
are represented as so-called surrogate pairs in UTF-16, two UTF-16
values in the 0xd800 - 0xdfff range.

While the conversion from UTF-8 f4 8f Bf Bf to UTF-16 dbff dfff
worked fine, the conversion back to UTF-8 has a subtil bug.  There's
a test for a lone high surrogate pair in the underlying conversion
function.  This tests the next UTF-16 value like this:

  if (wchar < 0xdc00 || wchar >= 0xdfff)
    /* Handle lone high surrogate */

Notice the >= 0xdfff?  That should have been > 0xdfff.  Duh.  This
bug is only a bit over 5 years old...

Fixed in the git repo.  I'l regenerate the today's fool..., erm, the
today's developer snapshot on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ later today.


Thanks, especially for the simple testcase,
Corinna

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Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Warren Young]

On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> As you probably know, Unicode values beyond the base plane (that is,
> everything > 0xffff in UTF-32 and > ef bf bf in UTF-8 notation)
> are represented as so-called surrogate pairs in UTF-16, two UTF-16
> values in the 0xd800 - 0xdfff range.

I happened to have run across a similar strangeness in Unicode earlier today.  Does Cygwin cope with/care about Unicode normalization forms?

  http://goo.gl/jnsqhC

For example, will open(2) cope with any UTF-8 form of a string that you could pass in UTF-16 encoding to CreateFile()?

You could imagine, say, a web app getting a string from a user, then using that to access a file on disk.  A different browser given the “same” string could result in a different series of bytes passed to the Cygwin POSIX layer.
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Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Apr  1 15:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> On Mar 30 13:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 25 14:34, Kyzer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
> > > UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
> > > subsequently accept.
> > > 
> > > * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
> > > * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
> > > * attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
> > > * attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds
> > 
> > Thanks for the testcase.  I'll have a look later this week (I hope).
> 
> Wow.  Just wow.  You found a long-standing bug in the wctomb conversion
> from UTF-16 to UTF-8.
> 
> As you probably know, Unicode values beyond the base plane (that is,
> everything > 0xffff in UTF-32 and > ef bf bf in UTF-8 notation)
> are represented as so-called surrogate pairs in UTF-16, two UTF-16
> values in the 0xd800 - 0xdfff range.
> 
> While the conversion from UTF-8 f4 8f Bf Bf to UTF-16 dbff dfff
> worked fine, the conversion back to UTF-8 has a subtil bug.  There's
> a test for a lone high surrogate pair in the underlying conversion
> function.  This tests the next UTF-16 value like this:
> 
>   if (wchar < 0xdc00 || wchar >= 0xdfff)
>     /* Handle lone high surrogate */
> 
> Notice the >= 0xdfff?  That should have been > 0xdfff.  Duh.  This
> bug is only a bit over 5 years old...
> 
> Fixed in the git repo.  I'l regenerate the today's fool..., erm, the
> today's developer snapshot on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ later today.

Snapshot is up.  Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Apr  1 10:01, Warren Young wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > 
> > As you probably know, Unicode values beyond the base plane (that is,
> > everything > 0xffff in UTF-32 and > ef bf bf in UTF-8 notation)
> > are represented as so-called surrogate pairs in UTF-16, two UTF-16
> > values in the 0xd800 - 0xdfff range.
> 
> I happened to have run across a similar strangeness in Unicode earlier
> today.  Does Cygwin cope with/care about Unicode normalization forms?

Not at all.  UTF-8 string in, equivalent UTF-16 string out and vice versa,
on the bit level.  Additionally there's a replacement for UTF-16 values
which can't be handled by the current (non-UTF-8) codeset, e.g. ISO8859-1:
ASCII CAN followed by the UTF-8 representation of the UTF-16 character.


Corinna

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