Split the live-ranges of loop variables again #20865
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When FE_FREE with ZEND_FREE_ON_RETURN frees the loop variable during an early return from a foreach loop, the live range for the loop variable was incorrectly extending past the FE_FREE to the normal loop end. This caused GC to access the already-freed loop variable when it ran after the RETURN opcode, resulting in use-after-free. Fix by splitting the ZEND_LIVE_LOOP range when an FE_FREE with ZEND_FREE_ON_RETURN is encountered: - One range covers the early return path up to the FE_FREE - A separate range covers the normal loop end FE_FREE - Multiple early returns create multiple separate ranges # Conflicts: # Zend/tests/gc_048.phpt # Zend/tests/gc_049.phpt
b0af9ac removed the live-range splitting of foreach variables, however it only added handling to ZEND_HANDLE_EXCEPTION. This was sort-of elegant, until it was realized in 8258b77 that it would leak the return variable, requiring some more special handling. At some point we added live tmpvar rooting in 52cf7ab, but this did not take into account already freed loop variables, which also might happen during ZEND_RETURN, which cannot be trivially accounted for, without even more complicated handling in zend_gc_*_tmpvars() functions. This commit also proposes a simpler way of tracking the loop end in loopvar freeing ops: handle it directly during live range computation rather than during compilation, eliminating the need for opcache to handle it specifically. Further, opcache was using live_ranges in its basic block computation in the past, which it no longer does. Thus this complication is no longer necessary and this approach should be actually simpler now. Closes php#20766. Signed-off-by: Bob Weinand <[email protected]>
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* 'PHP-8.4' of github.com:php/php-src: Split the live-ranges of loop variables again (#20865)
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* PHP-8.5: Split the live-ranges of loop variables again (#20865)
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b0af9ac removed the live-range splitting of foreach variables, however it only added handling to ZEND_HANDLE_EXCEPTION.
This was sort-of elegant, until it was realized in 8258b77 that it would leak the return variable, requiring some more special handling.
At some point we added live tmpvar rooting in 52cf7ab, but this did not take into account already freed loop variables, which also might happen during ZEND_RETURN, which cannot be trivially accounted for, without even more complicated handling in zend_gc_*_tmpvars() functions.
This commit also proposes a simpler way of tracking the loop end in loopvar freeing ops: handle it directly during live range computation rather than during compilation, eliminating the need for opcache to handle it specifically.
Further, opcache was using live_ranges in its basic block computation in the past, which it no longer does. Thus this complication is no longer necessary and this approach should be actually simpler now.
Closes #20766.