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Bug #67633 A foreach on an array returned from a function not doing copy-on-write
Submitted: 2014-07-16 15:11 UTC Modified: 2014-07-16 16:35 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: tim at siliconengine dot com Assigned: nikic (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 5.5.14 OS: CentOS 6.5
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2014-07-16 15:11 UTC] tim at siliconengine dot com
Description:
------------
When passing an array by value to a function, which immediately returns that array, and then using that return value in a foreach with a reference, it allows modifying the original array as if it was passed by reference.

These variants work properly:

............. Variant 1
[same main body]

function z($t)
{
// Force copy-on-write
    $t[0] .= 'x';
    return $t;
}
.............


............. Variant 2
    $a = [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ];
    $b = z($a);
// Assigning to variable causes proper copy-on-write behavior
    foreach($b as &$x) {
        $x .= 'q';
    }
    print_r($a);

[same z function]
.............

Test script:
---------------
<?php
    $a = [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ];
    foreach(z($a) as &$x) {
        $x .= 'q';
    }
    print_r($a);

function z($t)
{
    return $t;
}


Expected result:
----------------
Array
(
    [0] => a
    [1] => b
    [2] => c
)


Actual result:
--------------
Array
(
    [0] => aq
    [1] => bq
    [2] => cq
)


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 [2014-07-16 16:35 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic
 [2014-09-20 19:59 UTC] nikic@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5e977e69e144ca92868ae73cd3563eb473b75937
Log: Fixed bug #67633
 [2014-09-20 19:59 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2014-09-20 20:00 UTC] nikic@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5e977e69e144ca92868ae73cd3563eb473b75937
Log: Fixed bug #67633
 [2014-09-20 20:00 UTC] nikic@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5e977e69e144ca92868ae73cd3563eb473b75937
Log: Fixed bug #67633
 [2014-09-22 08:28 UTC] ab@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5e977e69e144ca92868ae73cd3563eb473b75937
Log: Fixed bug #67633
 
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