Assignments that are overwritten shortly afterwards and never used,
and a completely unused variable. Also, the bogus array access in
testbn.c could have actually accessed one beyond the array limit
(though of course it's only in a test harness).
Now it's always freed in the cleanup epilogue (unless we're returning
it), rather than ad-hoc earlier in the code. That should make it more
reliably freed on error paths.
Bring it into line with the other PuTTY tools: --help goes to stdout,
has a one-line purpose and brief version information, --version ends
with a newline.
(Also, tweak text bring the help message under 80 columns.)
Partly to reassure the user that they got what they asked for, and
partly so that's a clue for us in the logs when we get bug reports.
This involved repurposing platform_psftp_post_option_setup() (no longer
used since e22120fe) as platform_psftp_pre_conn_setup(), and moving it
to after logging is set up.
These must have been absent-mindedly copied from function declarations
of the form 'const type *fn(args)', where the 'const' is meaningful
and describes the data pointed to by the returned pointer, to
functions of the form 'const type fn(args)' where the 'const' is
completely pointless.
These are benign, I think. clang warns about casting non-pointer-sized
integers to pointers, but the Windows API actually does sometimes
involve values that are either pointers or _small_ integers, so in the
two cases involved I just cast through ULONG_PTR to silence the
warning. And clang insists that the integer whose address I give to
sk_getxdmdata is still uninitialised afterwards, which is just a lie.
clang-cl generates warnings saying they're deprecated, in favour of
the same names but prefixed with an underscore. The warnings are
coming from the standard MS headers, and I'm already #defining those
names differently on Unix, so I'll honour them.
When I added some extra braces in commit 095072fa4 to suppress this
warning, I think in fact I did the wrong thing, because the
declaration syntax I was originally using is the Microsoft-recommended
one in spite of clang not liking it - I think MS would be within their
rights (should they feel like it) to add those missing braces in a
later version of the WinSock headers, which would make the current
warning-clean code stop compiling. So it's better to put the code back
as it was, and avoid the clang warning by using clang's
warning-suppression pragmas for just those declarations.
I've also done the same thing in winnet.c, for two initialisers of
IPv6 well-known addresses which had the same problem (but which I
didn't notice yesterday because a misjudged set of Windows version
macros had prevented me from compiling that file successfully at all).
This was very strange to write, because it's a bizarre combination of
the GNU-make-isms and rc commands of Makefile.mgw with the cl and link
commands of Makefile.vc (but also the latter thankfully doesn't need
those horrible response files).
I've added a big comment in mkfiles.pl about what the build
requirements for this makefile actually are, which _hopefully_ will be
usable by people other than me.
We used to offer to clean up saved sessions, so we should mention that
we don't for the benefit of users of old versions, who might have been
relying on it.
This change applies to every situation when GUI PuTTY knowingly spawns
another GUI PuTTY, to wit, the System menu options 'New Session',
'Duplicate Session' and the 'Saved Sessions' submenu.
(Literally speaking, what we actually pass through to the sub-PuTTY's
command line is not the "-restrict-acl" option itself, but a special
prefix "&R", which has the same meaning but which lives in the special
pre-argv-splitting command-line namespace like the magic options used
for Duplicate Session and the old '@sessionname' prefix which the
Saved Sessions submenu still uses. Otherwise, by the time we split up
argv and recognised -restrict-acl, it would be too late to parse those
other options.)
One case in which PuTTY spawns a subprocess and this change _doesn't_
apply is when the subprocess is a proxy command which happens to be a
Plink. Recognising Plink commands in that situation would be fragile
and unreliable, and in any case if the user wants a proxy Plink to be
ACL-restricted, they are in control of its exact command line so they
can add -restrict-acl themselves.
These ones are stylistic rather than potential bugs: mostly signedness
of char pointers in cases where they clearly aren't going to cause the
wrong thing to actually happen, and one thing in winsecur.c where
clang would have preferred an extra pair of braces around some
initialisers but it's legal with or without. But since some of clang's
warnings turn out to be quite useful, it seems worth silencing these
harmless ones so as to be able to see the rest.
It's a function that exists on all platforms, not just on Unix - it's
used in ldisc.c - so it shouldn't have been declared only in unix.h.
Score another for clang's warnings.
I was having a play with clang's MSVC compatibility mode, just to see
how much of PuTTY it could compile, and one of its warnings pointed
out this error which must have crept in when I was changing the EOF
flags in winhandl.c from booleans to three-state enums - I left the !
on the front of what was previously an if (!thing) and needed to turn
into if (thing == EOF_NO).
Several functions were passing a 'char *error' and assigning error
messages directly into 'error', where they should have been passing
'char **error' and assigning error messages into '*error' if the error
message is to be returned to the caller. This would have led to
incomplete error messages.
Mostly so that we don't have to malloc contiguous space for them
inside PuTTY; since we've already got a handy constant saying how big
is too big, we might as well use it to sanity-check the contents of
our agent forwarding channels.
As documented in bug 'win-process-acl-finesse', we've had enough
assorted complaints about it breaking various non-malicious pieces of
Windows process interaction (ranging from git->plink integration to
screen readers for the vision-impaired) that I think it's more
sensible to set the process back to its default level of protection.
This precaution was never a fully effective protection anyway, due to
the race condition at process startup; the only properly effective
defence would have been to prevent malware running under the same user
ID as PuTTY in the first place, so in that sense, nothing has changed.
But people who want the arguable defence-in-depth advantage of the ACL
restriction can now turn it on with the '-restrict-acl' command-line
option, and it's up to them whether they can live with the assorted
inconveniences that come with it.
In the course of this change, I've centralised a bit more of the
restriction code into winsecur.c, to avoid repeating the error
handling in multiple places.
When we're going through the response from an SSH agent we asked for a
list of keys, and processing the string lengths in the SSH-2 sequence
of (public blob, comment) pairs, we were adding 4 to each string
length, and although we checked if the result came out to a negative
value (if interpreted as a signed integer) or a positive one going
beyond the end of the response buffer, we didn't check if it wrapped
round to a positive value less than 4. As a result, if an agent
returned malformed data sent a length field of 0xFFFFFFFC, the pointer
would advance no distance at all through the buffer, and the next
iteration of the loop would check the same length field again.
(However, this would only consume CPU pointlessly for a limited time,
because the outer loop up to 'nkeys' would still terminate sooner or
later. Also, I don't think this can sensibly be classed as a serious
security hazard - it's arguably a borderline DoS, but it requires a
hostile SSH _agent_ if data of that type is to be sent on purpose, and
an untrusted SSH agent is not part of the normal security model!)
The previous agent-forwarding system worked by passing each complete
query received from the input to agent_query() as soon as it was
ready. So if the remote client were to pipeline multiple requests,
then Unix PuTTY (in which agent_query() works asynchronously) would
parallelise them into many _simultaneous_ connections to the real
agent - and would not track which query went out first, so that if the
real agent happened to send its replies (to what _it_ thought were
independent clients) in the wrong order, then PuTTY would serialise
the replies on to the forwarding channel in whatever order it got
them, which wouldn't be the order the remote client was expecting.
To solve this, I've done a considerable rewrite, which keeps the
request stream in a bufchain, and only removes data from the bufchain
when it has a complete request. Then, if agent_query decides to be
asynchronous, the forwarding system waits for _that_ agent response
before even trying to extract the next request's worth of data from
the bufchain.
As an added bonus (in principle), this gives agent-forwarding channels
some actual flow control for the first time ever! If a client spams us
with an endless stream of rapid requests, and never reads its
responses, then the output side of the channel will run out of window,
which causes us to stop processing requests until we have space to
send responses again, which in turn causes us to stop granting extra
window on the input side, which serves the client right.
Now, instead of returning a boolean indicating whether the query has
completed or is still pending, agent_query() returns NULL to indicate
that the query _has_ completed, and if it hasn't, it returns a pointer
to a context structure representing the pending query, so that the
latter can be used to cancel the query if (for example) you later
decide you need to free the thing its callback was using as a context.
This should fix a potential race-condition segfault if you overload an
agent forwarding channel and then close it abruptly. (Which nobody
will be doing for sensible purposes, of course! But I ran across this
while stress-testing other aspects of agent forwarding.)
It's been commented out for ages because it never really worked, and
it's about to become further out of date when I make other changes to
the agent client code, so it's time to get rid of it before it gets in
the way.
If and when I do get round to supporting asynchronous agent requests
on Windows, it's now pretty clear to me that trying to coerce this
ghastly window-message IPC into the right shape is the wrong way, and
a better approach will be to make Pageant support a named-pipe based
alternative transport for its agent connections, and speaking the
ordinary stream-oriented agent protocol over that. Then Pageant will
be able to start adding interactive features (like confirmation
dialogs or on-demand decryption) with freedom to reply to multiple
simultaneous agent connections in whatever order it finds convenient.
In commit be586d53b I made empty.h depend on $(allsources), which
unfortunately was defined so as to include empty.h. This was harmless,
because make just ignored the circular dependency, but annoying,
because it constantly mentioned that it was ignoring it.
backend_socket_log was generating the IP address in its error messages
by means of calling sk_getaddr(). But sk_getaddr only gets a SockAddr,
which may contain a whole list of candidate addresses; it doesn't also
get the information stored in the 'step' field of the Socket that was
actually trying to make the connection, which says _which_ of those
addresses we were in the middle of trying to connect to.
So now we construct a temporary SockAddr that points at the
appropriate one of the addresses, and use that for calls to plug_log
during connection setup.
If connect() returns EINPROGRESS, then previously we would detect a
successful connection by the socket becoming selectable for writing,
and spot an unsuccessful one by an error code being returned on the
first attempt to read from it.
This isn't the right way to do it: the right way is to respond to the
initial writability notification by calling getsockopt(SO_ERROR) to
retrieve the error code (if any) from the completed connection
attempt. Doing it the old way had the problem that when the socket
became writable, we could sometimes already have written some of our
outgoing data to it before finding out that the connect attempt failed
- which meant we'd discard that data from the bufchain, and no longer
have it to send through a later successful connection to a different
candidate address.
If the length field in the input data was so large that adding 4 to it
caused wraparound, the error check could fail to trigger. Fortunately,
this praticular get_ssh_string function is only used during private
key import from foreign file formats, so it won't be facing hostile
data.
In case of connection errors before and during the handshake,
net_select_result is retrying with the next address of the server. It
however was immediately going to the last address as it was not
checking the return value of try_connect for all intermediate
addresses.
The .htaccess written by Buildscr into the w64 directory was applying
a redirect from 'putty-installer.msi', but in fact the name by which
the website links to snapshot and prerelease installers in that
directory is 'putty-64bit-installer.msi'.
