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From: Sergey Kaplun via Tarantool-patches <tarantool-patches@dev.tarantool.org>
To: Sergey Bronnikov <sergeyb@tarantool.org>
Cc: tarantool-patches@dev.tarantool.org
Subject: [Tarantool-patches] [PATCH luajit] Fix error generation in load*.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:59:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250610155947.27340-1-skaplun@tarantool.org> (raw)

From: Mike Pall <mike>

Reported by Sergey Kaplun.

(cherry picked from commit e76bb50d44702f601ec5dd167b03b475ed53860c)

The chunkname pointer to the "@filename" is put on the Lua stack
before the `lua_loadx()` and is removed right before the next
`lua_pushfstring()` in case of the error. If the GC takes the step
right at this moment inside `lua_pushfstring()` the string may be
collected, and the next read from this `chunkname + 1` is from the
deallocated memory.

This patch fixes this by using the source string (or the constant one)
instead.

Sergey Kaplun:
* added the description and the test for the problem

Part of tarantool/tarantool#11278
---

Related issues:
* https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1353
* https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/11278
Branch: https://github.com/tarantool/luajit/tree/skaplun/lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free


 src/lj_load.c                                 |  3 +-
 ...-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free.test.lua | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 test/tarantool-tests/lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free.test.lua

diff --git a/src/lj_load.c b/src/lj_load.c
index fdbc54cb..205686bb 100644
--- a/src/lj_load.c
+++ b/src/lj_load.c
@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ LUALIB_API int luaL_loadfilex(lua_State *L, const char *filename,
     copyTV(L, L->top-1, L->top);
   }
   if (err) {
+    const char *fname = filename ? filename : "stdin";
     L->top--;
-    lua_pushfstring(L, "cannot read %s: %s", chunkname+1, strerror(err));
+    lua_pushfstring(L, "cannot read %s: %s", fname, strerror(err));
     return LUA_ERRFILE;
   }
   return status;
diff --git a/test/tarantool-tests/lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free.test.lua b/test/tarantool-tests/lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free.test.lua
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3aa02f3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tarantool-tests/lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free.test.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+local tap = require('tap')
+
+-- Test file to demonstrate LuaJIT use-after-free in case of the
+-- error in `loadfile()`.
+-- See also: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1353.
+local test = tap.test('lj-1353-loadfile-err-use-after-free'):skipcond({
+  ['Too many GC objects on start'] = _TARANTOOL,
+})
+
+test:plan(1)
+
+-- Determine the GC step size to finish the GC cycle in one step.
+local full_step = 1
+while true do
+  collectgarbage('collect')
+  collectgarbage('setpause', 0)
+  collectgarbage('setstepmul', full_step)
+  if collectgarbage('step') then break end
+  full_step = full_step + 1
+end
+
+-- Check all possible GC step sizes.
+for i = 1, full_step do
+  collectgarbage('collect')
+  collectgarbage('setpause', 0)
+  collectgarbage('setstepmul', i)
+  repeat
+    -- On Linux-like systems this always returns `nil`, with the
+    -- error: "cannot read .: Is a directory"
+    -- The string for the filename "@." may be collected during
+    -- the call, and later the pointer to the "." from that string
+    -- is used after the string is free.
+    loadfile('.')
+  until collectgarbage('step')
+end
+
+test:ok(true, 'no use-after-free error')
+
+test:done(true)
-- 
2.49.0


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