Bug 83311 – Crashes in WebProcess at WebCore::HistoryController::recursiveSetProvisionalItem when restoring previous session

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Page Loading

[Brady Eidson]

Crashes in WebProcess at WebCore::HistoryController::recursiveSetProvisionalItem

In WebKit2 we can have a WebProcess that is in the middle of restoring a session while the UIProcess closes the associated WKPage.

As a result, when HistoryController::goToItem asks the back/forward controller for the current item, which then messages up to the UIProcess for that item, no item can be found.

We then do some work that accesses the current item without null checking it first, leading to this crash.

We have a couple of ASSERTS attesting to our expectation the current item is not null.  Here's the backtrace of the ASSERT, which is pretty close to the backtrace of the crash itself:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.WebCore             	0x0000000108de26bc WebCore::HistoryController::recursiveSetProvisionalItem(WebCore::HistoryItem*, WebCore::HistoryItem*, WebCore::FrameLoadType) + 172 (HistoryController.cpp:688)
1   com.apple.WebCore             	0x0000000108de2582 WebCore::HistoryController::goToItem(WebCore::HistoryItem*, WebCore::FrameLoadType) + 450 (HistoryController.cpp:272)
2   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00000001096c4419 WebCore::Page::goToItem(WebCore::HistoryItem*, WebCore::FrameLoadType) + 201 (Page.cpp:342)
3   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e1aad7 WebKit::WebPage::goToBackForwardItem(unsigned long long) + 183 (WebPage.cpp:771)
4   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e1c91e WebKit::WebPage::restoreSessionAndNavigateToCurrentItem(WebKit::SessionState const&) + 78 (WebPage.cpp:1447)
5   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e4ed77 void CoreIPC::callMemberFunction<WebKit::WebPage, void (WebKit::WebPage::*)(WebKit::SessionState const&), WebKit::SessionState>(CoreIPC::Arguments1<WebKit::SessionState> const&, WebKit::WebPage*, void (WebKit::WebPage::*)(WebKit::SessionState const&)) + 135 (HandleMessage.h:20)
6   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e46b26 void CoreIPC::handleMessage<Messages::WebPage::RestoreSessionAndNavigateToCurrentItem, WebKit::WebPage, void (WebKit::WebPage::*)(WebKit::SessionState const&)>(CoreIPC::ArgumentDecoder*, WebKit::WebPage*, void (WebKit::WebPage::*)(WebKit::SessionState const&)) + 118 (HandleMessage.h:303)
7   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e440a6 WebKit::WebPage::didReceiveWebPageMessage(CoreIPC::Connection*, CoreIPC::MessageID, CoreIPC::ArgumentDecoder*) + 1750 (WebPageMessageReceiver.cpp:182)
8   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106e1f97d WebKit::WebPage::didReceiveMessage(CoreIPC::Connection*, CoreIPC::MessageID, CoreIPC::ArgumentDecoder*) + 301 (WebPage.cpp:2507)
9   com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106ecdc8b WebKit::WebProcess::didReceiveMessage(CoreIPC::Connection*, CoreIPC::MessageID, CoreIPC::ArgumentDecoder*) + 923 (WebProcess.cpp:669)
10  com.apple.WebKit2             	0x0000000106d79b8e WebKit::WebConnectionToUIProcess::didReceiveMessage(CoreIPC::Connection*, CoreIPC::MessageID, CoreIPC::ArgumentDecoder*) + 350 (WebConnectionToUIProcess.cpp:88)

In radar as <rdar://problem/9359029>

[Brady Eidson]

Created attachment 135901 [details]
Patch v1

[Brady Eidson]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/113379