Ticket #509 (Open)Sun Apr 25 10:54:17 UTC 2021

WindowManager can abort on data transfer when auto-scrolling

Details by James Peacock (318):

If a wimp task uses Wimp_AutoScroll to start scrolling a window then a data abort occurs in the window manager under the following conditions:

1. Wimp_AutoScroll is used to start scrolling a window with no wimp icons.
2. The auto-scrolling window has scrolled as far as it can given the position of the pointer.
3. After the scrolling has reached it limit, but still active the pointer is over an icon in different window.

This was originally noticed in Avalanche and after some investigation, it appears that the WindowManager is using the ID of the icon under the pointer with the data structures for the auto-scrolled window. If there have never been any icons in that window then this results in an invalid pointer dereference.

See https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topi…

This isn’t limited to Avalanche, the following BASIC application can be used to reproduce the problem as follows:

1. Open a window containing some icons, e.g. the disc Free Space display.
2. Run the test application below
3. Position the test application’s window just above the first window opened.
4. Move the pointer into the test application’s window and perform a SELECT drag. This should initiate auto-scrolling and the pointer will change accordingly.
5. Move the pointer over one of the icons in the first window opened
6. Wait for the auto-scroll to reach the limit of the window.

This triggers a data abort at exactly the same location in the WindowManager as in the VNC Client discussion referenced above.

ON ERROR ON ERROR OFF:ERROR ERR, REPORT$ + " at line " + STR$(ERL):END

SYS "Wimp_Initialise",310,&4B534154,"AutoScroll Test",0

DIM blk% 256
b% = blk% + 4
b%!0  = 300
b%!4  = 300
b%!8  = 500
b%!12 = 500
b%!16 = 0
b%!20 = 0
b%!24 = -1
b%!28 = &FF000052
b%!32 = &01070207
b%!36 = &00010301
b%!40 = 0
b%!44 = -300
b%!48 = 300
b%!52 = 0
b%!56 = &90000091
b%!60 = 10<<12
b%!64 = 1
b%!68 = &0000800080
$(b%+72) = "AutoScroll" + CHR$0
b%!84 = 0

SYS "Wimp_CreateWindow",,b% TO window%

!blk%=window%
SYS "Wimp_OpenWindow",,blk%

quit%=FALSE
REPEAT
  SYS "Wimp_Poll",&3933,blk% TO event%
  CASE event% OF
    WHEN 2: SYS "Wimp_OpenWindow",,blk%
    WHEN 3: quit%=TRUE
    WHEN 6: PROCclick(blk%)
    WHEN 17: IF blk%!16=0 quit%=TRUE
  ENDCASE
UNTIL quit%
SYS "Wimp_CloseDown"
END

DEF PROCclick(blk%)
  IF blk%!8 = 64 THEN
    blk%!0  = window%
    blk%!4  = 80
    blk%!8  = 80
    blk%!12 = 80
    blk%!16 = 80
    blk%!20 = 0
    blk%!24 = 1
    blk%!28 = 0
    SYS "Wimp_AutoScroll",3,blk%
  ENDIF
ENDPROC

RISC OS 5.28 (16 Dec 2020) on a RPi 2B