RESEND: winhelp: bug fix in LZ77 decompressor
lich_at_math
lich at math.spbu.ru
Tue Aug 8 07:34:32 CDT 2006
>
> Hi,
>
> ChangeLog:
> Fix rather unusual bug in LZ77 decompressor. We cannot use memcpy
> with overlapped areas because of unpredictable result. We must copy
> byte-by-byte.
>
We cannot use memmove/bcopy too (different functionality).
Now, attach file correctly.
Index: programs/winhelp/hlpfile.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/programs/winhelp/hlpfile.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -p -r1.29 hlpfile.c
--- programs/winhelp/hlpfile.c 23 May 2006 12:49:31 -0000 1.29
+++ programs/winhelp/hlpfile.c 8 Aug 2006 10:07:01 -0000
@@ -1498,8 +1498,14 @@ static BYTE *HLPFILE_UncompressLZ77(BYTE
int code = GET_USHORT(ptr, 0);
int len = 3 + (code >> 12);
int offset = code & 0xfff;
- memcpy(newptr, newptr - offset - 1, len);
- newptr += len;
+ /*
+ * We must copy byte-by-byte here. We cannot use memcpy
here,
+ * because areas are overlaps, so it's behaviour is
+ * unpredictable (memcpy DOES NOT copy byte-by-byte
because of
+ * some optimizations).
+ * bcopy also fails, it behaves like memmove, non memcpy.
+ */
+ for (; len>0; len--, newptr++) *newptr =
*(newptr-offset-1);
ptr += 2;
}
else *newptr++ = *ptr++;
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