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Bug #78272 calling preg_match() before pcntl_fork() will freeze child process
Submitted: 2019-07-10 15:32 UTC Modified: 2019-09-18 08:25 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: [email protected] Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 7.3.7 OS: OSX
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2019-07-10 15:32 UTC] [email protected] 
Description:
------------
When preg_match (or another preg_*function) has been called before pcntl_fork(), and then, called again in the child process, the child process stops at the preg_match, and just hangs. 

No error, no crash. 

This was tested on OSX, and it couldn't be replicated on Debian. This may be specific to OSX.


It is reproductible with PHP 7.3.7. It works on 7.2, 7.1.

It may be related to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77260 

Test script:
---------------
<?php
// Uncomment the following to freeze child process
//        preg_match('/abc/', 'abcde', $r);

        $pid = pcntl_fork();
        if ($pid === 0) {
            print "Child start\n";
            preg_match('/abc/', 'abcde', $r);
            print_r($r);
            print "End child\n";
            exit(0);
        } else {
            print "Main start\n";
            sleep(3);
            print "End Main\n";
            exit(0);
        }
?>

Expected result:
----------------
Main start
Child start
Array
(
    [0] => abc
)
End child
End Main

Actual result:
--------------
Main start
Child start
End Main

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 [2019-07-10 15:37 UTC] [email protected] 
Is it possible for you test whether this works on 7.4 (has an updated PCRE2)?
 [2019-07-10 15:37 UTC] [email protected] 
And also whether it works if you set pcre.jit=0.
 [2019-07-10 16:03 UTC] [email protected] 
pcre.jit=0 fixes the problem, both with PHP 7.3 and 7.4.


pcre.jit=1 behave the same with php 7.3 and 7.4.
 [2019-07-11 10:59 UTC] [email protected] 
I was not able to reproduce this issue on 7.4 on Darwin 16.0.0. I tried both NTS and ZTS builds.
 [2019-07-12 09:54 UTC] [email protected] 
Here is my build sequence : 

git pull
git checkout PHP-7.4; git pull
make clean
./buildconf --force
env YACC=`brew --prefix bison`/bin/bison ./configure \
    --prefix="/usr/local/opt/php74" \
    --with-config-file-path="/usr/local/etc/php71" \
    --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/phpng/conf.d \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --enable-tokenizer \
    --with-curl=/usr/local/opt/curl/\
    --enable-mbstring \
    --with-sqlite3=/usr/local/Cellar/sqlite/3.28.0 \
    --with-sodium=/usr/local/opt/libsodium \
    --enable-json \
    --enable-pcntl \
    --disable-all
gmake -j`sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu_max`
gmake test


I have the last OSX patches : 
      System Version: macOS 10.14.5 (18F132)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 18.6.0
 [2019-09-18 08:25 UTC] [email protected]
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2019-09-18 08:25 UTC] [email protected] 
Reproduced on CI.
 [2019-09-18 08:45 UTC] [email protected] 
Automatic comment on behalf of [email protected]
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=e11ed028706dbedc51ba71736de21db15890a1c0
Log: Fixed bug #78272
 [2019-09-18 08:45 UTC] [email protected]
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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