[perl #125925] When using external c-functions through perlxs, copies of strings (copy-on-write) are not properly produced

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Dear Sir or Madam,

our company uses Perl daily for a variety of tasks. We found what we strongly believe is a bug and we would like to contribute to the development of Perl.

After doing a simple copy of a string, if an external c-function is used to modify the copy, the function will change the original as well. Apparently the "copy-on-write" routine does not work perfectly for external c-functions in the newest versions of Perl.

This happens in Perl 5.20 and 5.22 but works properly under Perl 5.14. We use mainly Perl 5.14 and we found the bug as we upgrade to newer (Debian) Systems.

On the attachment we provide a tar. Calling  within the unpacked folder  " make test" should compile a C shared library, produce the perlxs shared library and call the little example that should show the bug we want to report.

We provide as well dumps of "perlbug -d" for both a Perl version without the bug (5.14) and for a Perl version with the bug (5.22).


Finally we want to thank anybody involve into the development of Perl. Our work is much easier thanks to them.

If possible we would like to receive some feedback about this report. Thanks very much. Cheers
Emilio Pastor Mira


Emilio Pastor Mira
Development Engineer

Utimaco IS GmbH
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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.22.0:

Configured by epa at Thu Aug 27 16:05:12 CEST 2015.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 0) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-4-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux
    uname='linux lx-epa 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/home/epa/WORK/perlbug/localperl/'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.13.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.13'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'


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@INC for perl 5.22.0:
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    /home/epa/WORK/perlbug/localperl/lib/site_perl/5.22.0
    /home/epa/WORK/perlbug/localperl/lib/5.22.0/x86_64-linux
    /home/epa/WORK/perlbug/localperl/lib/5.22.0
    .

---
Environment for perl 5.22.0:
    HOME=/home/epa
    LANG=en_US.utf8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/epa/WORK/perlbug/localperl/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/fs/bin/Linux-x86_64
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.14.2:

Configured by Debian Project at Mon Sep 30 03:43:22 UTC 2013.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-4-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    uname='linux babin 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Dldflags= -Wl,-z,relro -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-z,relro -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.14 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.14 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Duse64bitint -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Ui_libutil -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.14.2 -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -g',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.14.2
    gnulibc_version='2.13'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
    DEBPKG:debian/arm_thread_stress_timeout - http://bugs.debian.org/501970 Raise the timeout of ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t to accommodate slower build hosts
    DEBPKG:debian/cpan_definstalldirs - Provide a sensible INSTALLDIRS default for modules installed from CPAN.
    DEBPKG:debian/db_file_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/340047 Remove overly restrictive DB_File version check.
    DEBPKG:debian/doc_info - Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information.
    DEBPKG:debian/enc2xs_inc - http://bugs.debian.org/290336 Tweak enc2xs to follow symlinks and ignore missing @INC directories.
    DEBPKG:debian/errno_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/343351 Remove Errno version check due to upgrade problems with long-running processes.
    DEBPKG:debian/libperl_embed_doc - http://bugs.debian.org/186778 Note that libperl-dev package is required for embedded linking
    DEBPKG:fixes/respect_umask - Respect umask during installation
    DEBPKG:debian/writable_site_dirs - Set umask approproately for site install directories
    DEBPKG:debian/extutils_set_libperl_path - EU:MM: Set location of libperl.a to /usr/lib
    DEBPKG:debian/no_packlist_perllocal - Don't install .packlist or perllocal.pod for perl or vendor
    DEBPKG:debian/prefix_changes - Fiddle with *PREFIX and variables written to the makefile
    DEBPKG:debian/fakeroot - Postpone LD_LIBRARY_PATH evaluation to the binary targets.
    DEBPKG:debian/instmodsh_doc - Debian policy doesn't install .packlist files for core or vendor.
    DEBPKG:debian/ld_run_path - Remove standard libs from LD_RUN_PATH as per Debian policy.
    DEBPKG:debian/libnet_config_path - Set location of libnet.cfg to /etc/perl/Net as /usr may not be writable.
    DEBPKG:debian/m68k_thread_stress - http://bugs.debian.org/517938 http://bugs.debian.org/495826 Disable some threads tests on m68k for now due to missing TLS.
    DEBPKG:debian/mod_paths - Tweak @INC ordering for Debian
    DEBPKG:debian/module_build_man_extensions - http://bugs.debian.org/479460 Adjust Module::Build manual page extensions for the Debian Perl policy
    DEBPKG:debian/prune_libs - http://bugs.debian.org/128355 Prune the list of libraries wanted to what we actually need.
    DEBPKG:fixes/net_smtp_docs - [rt.cpan.org #36038] http://bugs.debian.org/100195 Document the Net::SMTP 'Port' option
    DEBPKG:debian/perlivp - http://bugs.debian.org/510895 Make perlivp skip include directories in /usr/local
    DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_definstalldirs - http://bugs.debian.org/533707 Configure CPANPLUS to use the site directories by default.
    DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_config_path - Save local versions of CPANPLUS::Config::System into /etc/perl.
    DEBPKG:debian/deprecate-with-apt - http://bugs.debian.org/580034 Point users to Debian packages of deprecated core modules
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-ccflags - [a190e64] http://bugs.debian.org/587901 [perl #92244] Make hints/gnu.sh append to $ccflags rather than overriding them
    DEBPKG:debian/squelch-locale-warnings - http://bugs.debian.org/508764 Squelch locale warnings in Debian package maintainer scripts
    DEBPKG:debian/skip-upstream-git-tests - Skip tests specific to the upstream Git repository
    DEBPKG:fixes/extutils-cbuilder-cflags - [011e8fb] http://bugs.debian.org/624460 [perl #89478] Append CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to their Config.pm counterparts in EU::CBuilder
    DEBPKG:fixes/module-build-home-directory - http://bugs.debian.org/624850 [rt.cpan.org #67893] Fix failing tilde test when run under a UID without a passwd entry
    DEBPKG:debian/patchlevel - http://bugs.debian.org/567489 List packaged patches for 5.14.2-21+deb7u1 in patchlevel.h
    DEBPKG:fixes/h2ph-multiarch - [e7ec705] http://bugs.debian.org/625808 [perl #90122] Make h2ph correctly search gcc include directories
    DEBPKG:fixes/index-tainting - [3b36395] http://bugs.debian.org/291450 [perl #64804] RT 64804: tainting with index() of a constant
    DEBPKG:fixes/document_makemaker_ccflags - http://bugs.debian.org/628522 [rt.cpan.org #68613] Document that CCFLAGS should include $Config{ccflags}
    DEBPKG:fixes/sys-syslog-socket-timeout-kfreebsd.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/627821 [rt.cpan.org #69997] Use a socket timeout on GNU/kFreeBSD to catch ICMP port unreachable messages
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-hints - http://bugs.debian.org/636609 Improve general GNU hints, needed for GNU/Hurd.
    DEBPKG:fixes/pod_fixes - [7698aed] http://bugs.debian.org/637816 Fix typos in several pod/perl*.pod files
    DEBPKG:debian/find_html2text - http://bugs.debian.org/640479 Configure CPAN::Distribution with correct name of html2text
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest_eval_hole - http://bugs.debian.org/644108 Close the eval "require $module" security hole in Digest->new($algorithm)
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-ndbm - [f0d0a20] [perl #102680] http://bugs.debian.org/645989 Add GNU/Hurd hints for NDBM_File
    DEBPKG:fixes/sysconf.t-posix - [8040185] [perl #102888] http://bugs.debian.org/646016 Fix hang in ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd-largefile - [1fda587] [perl #103014] http://bugs.debian.org/645790 enable LFS on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_todo_syslog - http://bugs.debian.org/650093 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests in cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t
    DEBPKG:fixes/hurd_skip_itimer_virtual - [rt.cpan.org #72754] http://bugs.debian.org/650094 Skip interval timer tests in Time::HiRes on GNU/Hurd
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_sigdispatch - http://bugs.debian.org/650188 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests op/sigdispatch.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_stack - http://bugs.debian.org/650175 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests dist/threads/t/stack.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_pipe - http://bugs.debian.org/650187 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests io/pipe.t
    DEBPKG:debian/hurd_test_skip_io_pipe - http://bugs.debian.org/650096 Disable failing GNU/Hurd tests dist/IO/t/io_pipe.t
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_CPAN - http://bugs.debian.org/650448 [rt.cpan.org #73396] cpan/CPAN: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_CPANPLUS - http://bugs.debian.org/650450 [rt.cpan.org #73398] cpan/CPANPLUS: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_Test-Harness - http://bugs.debian.org/650451 [rt.cpan.org #73399] cpan/Test-Harness: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/manpage_name_Term-UI - http://bugs.debian.org/650452 [rt.cpan.org #73400] cpan/Term-UI: add NAME headings in modules with POD
    DEBPKG:fixes/podlators_ae_ligature_fallback - http://bugs.debian.org/652851 Fix the ASCII fallback string for AE
    DEBPKG:fixes/fsf_postal_address - [de89470] Update references to the FSF's postal address
    DEBPKG:fixes/cpan_module_pod_fixes - [perl #106870] [rt.cpan.org #73447] [rt.cpan.org #73446] Fix POD formatting in Term-Cap and Pod-Parser
    DEBPKG:fixes/cgi_no_shellwords_pl - Use Text::ParseWords instead of shellwords.pl
    DEBPKG:fixes/path_max_fallback - [perl #109262] http://bugs.debian.org/656869 Don't use _POSIX_PATH_MAX as a fallback PATH_MAX
    DEBPKG:debian/makemaker-pasthru - http://bugs.debian.org/660195 [rt.cpan.org #28632] Make EU::MM pass LD through to recursive Makefile.PL invocations
    DEBPKG:fixes/propagate_tainted_errors.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663158 [perl #111654] properly propagate tainted errors
    DEBPKG:debian/perl5db-x-terminal-emulator.patch - http://bugs.debian.org/668490 Invoke x-terminal-emulator rather than xterm in perl5db.pl
    DEBPKG:fixes/socket_cache_propagate - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659075 [rt.cpan.org #61577] [perl #112736] sockdomain and socktype undef on newly accepted sockets
    DEBPKG:fixes/ipc_open3 - [perl #114454] http://bugs.debian.org/683894 IPC::Open3::open3(..., '-') broken
    DEBPKG:fixes/string_repeat_overrun - http://bugs.debian.org/689314 [b675304] avoid calling memset with a negative count
    DEBPKG:debian/cpan-missing-site-dirs - http://bugs.debian.org/688842 Fix CPAN::FirstTime defaults with nonexisting site dirs if a parent is writable
    DEBPKG:fixes/kfreebsd-overrides - http://bugs.debian.org/689713 [perl #115324] [7dc6565] Remove unnecessary overrides in gnukfreebsd and gnuknetbsd hints.
    DEBPKG:fixes/tainted-smartmatch - [be88a5c] http://bugs.debian.org/690571 [perl #93590] $tainted ~~ [...] failing
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-starter - [6e634c5] http://bugs.debian.org/690975 [perl #101710] Regression with /i, latin1 chars.
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-fold - [399fb9c] http://bugs.debian.org/690976 regexec.c: Fix "\x{FB01}\x{FB00}" =~ /ff/i
    DEBPKG:fixes/regexp-matching-opposite-case - [dc91d5a] http://bugs.debian.org/690979 [perl #101970] /[[:lower:]]/i matches upper case
    DEBPKG:fixes/reading-glob-copy-handle - [fd1564b] http://bugs.debian.org/629363 [perl #92258] <$fh> hangs on a glob copy
    DEBPKG:fixes/smartmatch-rhs-precedence - http://bugs.debian.org/691102 [011be0b] Enforce Any ~~ Object smartmatch precedence
    DEBPKG:fixes/perlcheat-update - http://bugs.debian.org/691112 [ab0ae0a] Update PerlCheat to 5.14
    DEBPKG:fixes/cgi-cr-escaping - http://bugs.debian.org/693420 CR escaping for P3P and Set-Cookie headers
    DEBPKG:fixes/maketext-code-execution - [1735f6f] http://bugs.debian.org/695224 Fix misparsing of maketext strings.
    DEBPKG:fixes/storable-security-warning - [664f237] http://bugs.debian.org/695223 add a note about security concerns in Storable
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest-sha-doublefree - [rt.cpan.org #82655] http://bugs.debian.org/698172 [a8c6ff7] Fix a double-free bug in Digest::SHA
    DEBPKG:fixes/64bitint-signedness-wraparound - http://bugs.debian.org/698320 [94e529c] Avoid wraparound when casting unsigned size_t to signed ssize_t.
    DEBPKG:fixes/stdin-sigchld - http://bugs.debian.org/700171 [perl #116621] [be48bbe] add a couple missing LEAVEs in perlio_async_run()
    DEBPKG:fixes/hsplit-rehash - [d59e31f] http://bugs.debian.org/702296 Prevent premature hsplit() calls, and only trigger REHASH after hsplit()
    DEBPKG:fixes/encode-memleak - http://bugs.debian.org/702416 [5814803] Encode: Fixed a memory leak that occurred in the UTF-8 encoding.
    DEBPKG:fixes/threads_shared_elements_crash - [perl #119089] http://bugs.debian.org/718438 threads::shared should not crash if shared elements outlive their aggregate.
    DEBPKG:fixes/perlbug-patchlist - [3541c11] http://bugs.debian.org/710842 [perl #118433] Make perlbug look up the list of local patches at run time
    DEBPKG:fixes/digest_sha_double_free - [ee8c6f4] [rt.cpan.org #86295] http://bugs.debian.org/711206 maint-5.18: Digest-SHA crash fix in 5.85
    DEBPKG:fixes/pl_eval_start_use_after_free - [eae139f] [perl #115992] PL_eval_start use-after-free
    DEBPKG:fixes/regcomp_fix_segv - [ebb390a] [perl #115994] fix segv in regcomp.c:S_join_exact()
    DEBPKG:fixes/list_util_off_by_two - [623a911] fix off-by-two error in List::Util
    DEBPKG:fixes/sdbm_off_by_one - [7f5f08b] [perl #111586] sdbm.c: fix off-by-one access to global ".dir"
    DEBPKG:fixes/socket_unpack_sockaddr_un_heap_buffer_overflow - [e508642] [perl #111594] Socket::unpack_sockaddr_un heap-buffer-overflow

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@INC for perl 5.14.2:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.14
    /usr/share/perl/5.14
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

---
Environment for perl 5.14.2:
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    LANG=en_US.utf8
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    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/fs/bin/Linux-x86_64
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash