Bug 168593 – ASSERTION FAILED: "m_state != ParseError" when adding Unicode flag to RegExp whose pattern isn't valid under Unicode mode

• Status: NEW
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[André Bargull]

Revision: 212634

Test case:
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var re = RegExp(/\a/, "u");
re.test("");
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Triggers this assertion:
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ASSERTION FAILED: m_state != ParseError
../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpInlines.h(198) : JSC::MatchResult JSC::RegExp::matchInline(JSC::VM&, const WTF::String&, unsigned int)
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Stacktrace:
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#0  0x00007ffff6dc6f98 in WTFCrash () at ../../Source/WTF/wtf/Assertions.cpp:323
#1  0x00007ffff6c90d42 in JSC::RegExp::matchInline (this=0x7fffaef9f4a0, vm=..., s=..., startOffset=0) at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpInlines.h:198
#2  0x00007ffff6c9033c in JSC::RegExp::match (this=0x7fffaef9f4a0, vm=..., s=..., startOffset=0) at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExp.cpp:354
#3  0x00007ffff6c9b692 in JSC::RegExpConstructor::performMatch (this=0x7fffaef980a0, vm=..., regExp=0x7fffaef9f4a0, string=0x7fffaefe00a0, input=..., startOffset=0)
    at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpConstructor.h:121
#4  0x00007ffff6c9959c in JSC::RegExpObject::matchInline (this=0x7fffaefc3cd0, exec=0x7fffffffc7b0, globalObject=0x7fffaefdc0a0, string=0x7fffaefe00a0)
    at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpObjectInlines.h:114
#5  0x00007ffff6c9a338 in JSC::RegExpObject::match (this=0x7fffaefc3cd0, exec=0x7fffffffc7b0, globalObject=0x7fffaefdc0a0, string=0x7fffaefe00a0)
    at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpObject.cpp:170
#6  0x00007ffff658809b in JSC::RegExpObject::test (this=0x7fffaefc3cd0, exec=0x7fffffffc7b0, globalObject=0x7fffaefdc0a0, string=0x7fffaefe00a0) at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpObject.h:74
#7  0x00007ffff6c9c527 in JSC::regExpProtoFuncTestFast (exec=0x7fffffffc7b0) at ../../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpPrototype.cpp:112
...
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[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd]]

I ran robobisect against this bug, and after the following commit:

commit ea375360dc2966035e4f7b3e57749b63454e4bf9
Author: msaboff
Date:   Fri May 18 02:59:31 2018 +0000

    We don't throw SyntaxErrors for runtime generated regular expressions with errors
    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185755
    
    Reviewed by Keith Miller.
    
    </snip>
    
    git-svn-id: https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk@231939 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc


it no longer throws the assertion failure, instead showing:

Exception: SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: invalid escaped character for unicode pattern

:msaboff, is this a likely fix or is this merely hiding the bug?