Bug #60110 [Com]: fclose(), file_put_contents(), copy() do not return false properly

From: Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:10:17 +0000
Subject: Bug #60110 [Com]: fclose(), file_put_contents(), copy() do not return false properly
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 ID:                 60110
 Comment by:         tim at bishnet dot net
 Reported by:        tom at punkave dot com
 Summary:            fclose(), file_put_contents(), copy() do not return
                     false properly
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Filesystem function related
 Operating System:   all
 PHP Version:        5.3.8
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Same issue here using file_put_contents:

82607 open("hello.txt", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
82607 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
82607 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)             = 0
82607 write(3, "Hello, world", 12)      = 12
82607 close(3)                          = -1 EDQUOT (Disk quota exceeded)

Write succeeds but the close fails. file_put_contents doesn't check the result of the close:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/standard/file.c#L695

Looks unlikely anybody is going to fix this though, given the age of this bug :-(


Previous Comments:
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[2013-05-07 20:16:47] scottix at gmail dot com

Still a bug
PHP 5.4.14 (cli) (built: May  5 2013 12:09:08)

I am using gluster to write to a file and then in the middle of the write I 
perform a unplug power shutoff. Gluster goes into lock mode which is good, what 
it is supposed to do. Although php doesn't seem to do the right thing, I did a 
strace of the fclose and you can clearly see a -1 is sent, but php is ignoring 
it.

//Gluster shut off and gluster mount log shows volume down

//fwrite here although can succeed since it buffers
write(3, "Some Text 2", 11)             = 11
write(1, "int(11)\n", 8int(11)
)                = 8

// Performed fflush(), not sure about this one
write(1, "bool(true)\n", 11bool(true)
)            = 11

// Performed fclose() here
close(3)                                = -1 ENOTCONN (Transport endpoint is not 
connected)
write(1, "bool(true)\n", 11bool(true)

Please make this higher priority.

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[2012-08-20 05:38:22] stas@php.net

This looks like a bug, I think it'd be fine to have the fix in 5.4. Any pull reqs 
with fixes?

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[2011-12-30 17:25:04] cataphract@php.net

fclose() calls php_stream_close since PHP 5.4, see http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=309491

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[2011-12-29 04:45:53] tstarling@php.net

It would be nice if the return value of php_stream_close() was checked, but note that fclose() does
not call php_stream_close(), it calls zend_list_delete(), which can't return anything sensible
because rsrc_dtor_func_t returns void.

It would be ugly and difficult to change rsrc_dtor_func_t at this stage, and in any case, during
shutdown or zval destruction we don't really care about flush failures. I think the way to go
would be to call php_stream_close() from fclose() before calling the resource destructor. There
probably won't be any dangling pointers, it looks pretty well guarded already.

As for cataphract's concern: we could audit all the wrapper close functions, there's not
that many of them is there?

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[2011-10-24 17:05:00] tom at punkave dot com

How about a close_checks_flush php.ini flag which defaults to false in 5.3 and to 
true in 5.4?

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