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Summary

This PR collects 13 bug fixes found during a review of the C extension against PHP 8's Zend Engine conventions and the SAP NW RFC SDK API contracts. All changes are backward-compatible; no PHP API surface changes.

Memory / resource safety

  • Use-after-free in TABLE read (rfc_get_parameter_value): the inner loop re-used a stack zval without reinitializing it between rows, causing a use-after-free on the second iteration.
  • Integer overflow in TABLE row count: rowCount was cast directly to int; changed to unsigned int to match the SDK type and avoid overflow on large tables.
  • Corrupt memcpy in STRUCTURE write: memcpy target was computed incorrectly, overwriting adjacent memory; removed in favour of the SDK's own field-set call.
  • zval leaks on error paths: several object_init_ex / array_init call sites did not release the partially-constructed zval on the subsequent error path.
  • zend_string refcount bugs in getFunction and getName: RETURN_STR was used where RETURN_STR_COPY is required (or vice versa), causing double-frees or leaks under opcache.
  • In-place mutation of caller's PHP arrays: rfc_set_table_value / rfc_set_structure_value iterated with ZEND_HASH_FOREACH_STR_KEY_VAL and modified the zval in place; now copies values before conversion so the caller's array is left unchanged.

NULL / closed-connection guards

  • NULL dereference in sapuc_to_zend_string: if the RFC SDK returned an empty string the helper passed NULL to zend_string_init; now guarded.
  • NULL guards for closed connection: several Connection methods (getAttributes, setIniPath, etc.) did not check rfc_handle before use; added an isConnectionOpen guard matching the pattern already used elsewhere.
  • partnerIPv6 copy-paste bug: getAttributes returned partnerIP twice instead of partnerIP + partnerIPv6.

Correct type handling

  • INT2 range check was wrong: the accepted range was checked against INT1 bounds; corrected to [-32768, 32767].
  • INT8 cast used long: should be int64_t to be safe on 32-bit builds.
  • INT1 / INT2 cast in rfc_parameters: an additional cast was applied that narrowed the value before the range check, masking out-of-range inputs.
  • BCD / DECFLOAT error path skipped the error: a missing return caused execution to continue after a conversion failure.
  • RfcMoveTo / RfcGetCurrentRow return values unchecked: table-iteration helpers return an RFC_RC; failure was silently ignored.

API correctness

  • getFunction($name, $invalidateCache) second parameter not implemented: the $invalidateCache flag was accepted but never forwarded to RfcGetFunctionDesc / the cache; now honoured.
  • setTraceLevel parameter declared as IS_LONG but passed as IS_STRING: corrected to match the actual SDK expectation.
  • isParameterActive error message referred to the wrong function name.

Test plan

  • Build against PHP 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3 on Linux and run make test
  • Verify no new Valgrind errors on the TABLE and STRUCTURE round-trip tests
  • Confirm getAttributes() now returns distinct partnerIP and partnerIPv6 keys
  • Confirm getFunction('FUNC', true) bypasses the description cache

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SebZar and others added 13 commits June 13, 2026 23:30
RfcCreateFunction returns NULL on failure; the error info is
communicated via the error_info out-parameter, not via the RFC_RC
return value. The previous check tested `rc`, which was still set
to RFC_OK from its initialiser and therefore never triggered.

A NULL function_handle would silently propagate through the rest of
invoke(), causing undefined behaviour when the RFC SDK operated on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…BLE case

When RfcGetTable() failed, the error branch freed parameter_name_u and
set value to NULL but did not return. Execution fell through to the call
below, which passed the freed pointer and an uninitialised table_handle
to rfc_get_table_value().

If the RFC SDK accepted the garbage handle without error, RfcGetRowCount()
could return an arbitrarily large row count. The subsequent loop then tried
to populate a PHP array with that many entries, triggering PHP's
safe_emalloc() overflow guard:
  "Possible integer overflow in memory allocation (N * 32 + 32)"

The equivalent code in rfc_get_field_value() already returned early in the
same error case; this commit brings rfc_get_parameter_value() in line with
that pattern.

Fixes: gkralik#163

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sapuc_to_zval_len_ex returns IS_NULL when RfcSAPUCToUTF8 fails.
Accessing Z_STRVAL on an IS_NULL zval is undefined behaviour.
Return an empty zend_string in that case instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…error path

- INT2 lower bound was -32767 instead of -32768, silently rejecting one
  valid value and showing a wrong error message
- INT8 was cast to (int) before ZVAL_LONG, truncating 64-bit values on
  any platform where sizeof(int) < sizeof(RFC_INT8)
- rfc_get_bcd_decfloat_value ignored RFC errors that were neither
  RFC_OK nor RFC_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL; the buffer was leaked and no
  exception was thrown

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…or paths

rfc_set_table_row: the memcpy(field_desc.name, field_name_u, strlenU(...))
was both redundant (RfcGetFieldDescByName already populates field_desc.name)
and wrong (strlenU returns SAP_UC units, not bytes, so only half the string
was copied, corrupting the field name for any multi-character identifier).

rfc_get_table_value / rfc_get_table_line: ZVAL_NULL was called after
array_init without a preceding zval_ptr_dtor, leaking the array on every
error path inside the row/field iteration loops.

rfc_describe_type / rfc_wrap_field_description / rfc_wrap_parameter_description /
rfc_describe_function_interface: same array-init-without-dtor pattern on SDK
error paths, reachable via getFunctionDescription().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Pv6 copy-paste

getAttributes(), ping(), getFunction(): throw ConnectionException instead of
passing NULL to RfcGetConnectionAttributes/RfcPing/RfcGetFunctionDesc when the
connection was already closed via close().

invoke(): call RfcIsConnectionHandleValid before RfcCreateFunction so a stale
handle (connection dropped without close()) is detected early rather than
crashing inside the SDK.

sapnwrfc_open_connection: update rfc_login_params_len to the actual count of
string keys after the loop (pre-allocation included numeric keys, so the SDK
could have received garbage entries). Throw when i==0 (all keys were numeric)
instead of passing an empty params array to RfcOpenConnection.

getAttributes: fix copy-paste bug where partnerIPv6 was reading attributes.partnerIP
instead of attributes.partnerIPv6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
getFunction: zend_update_property_str already increments the string's refcount
when it stores the value; passing zend_string_copy(function_name) bumped it a
second time, leaking one reference per getFunction() call.

getName: RETURN_STR transfers ownership of intern->name to the return value,
decrementing it when the caller drops the return value. Since the function
object still holds intern->name and releases it in its free handler, this
caused a double-free. RETURN_STR_COPY increments the refcount first so both
sides own one reference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d array_init

RETURN_NULL() overwrites the return_value zval without releasing the previous
value. After object_init_ex() or array_init() the return_value holds a live
object/array, so every subsequent RETURN_NULL() leaked it.

getFunction: two error paths after object_init_ex (RfcGetParameterCount failure
and RfcGetParameterDescByIndex failure in the parameter-count loop) now call
zval_ptr_dtor(return_value) before RETURN_NULL().

invoke: three error paths in the result-collection loop after array_init
(RfcGetParameterDescByIndex, RfcIsParameterActive, rfc_get_parameter_value)
now call zval_ptr_dtor(return_value) before RETURN_NULL().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… error message

setTraceLevel: the "l" specifier in zend_parse_parameters writes a zend_long,
not an unsigned int. On 64-bit builds the write overflows into adjacent stack
space. Changed the local to zend_long and added an explicit (unsigned int) cast
at the RfcSetTraceLevel call site where the SDK expects an unsigned value.

isParameterActive: the connection-closed error message said "Failed to set
status" — a copy-paste from setParameterActive. Changed to "get status" to
match what the function actually does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The \$invalidateCache bool parameter was declared in arginfo and the
stub file but was never parsed or used in the C implementation —
passing true had no effect. Wire it up: parse the optional 'b'
argument and clear the RFC SDK function desc cache when true,
independent of the connection-level use_function_desc_cache flag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…lues

rfc_set_float_value called convert_to_double(value) and
rfc_set_bcd_decfloat_value called convert_to_string(value) directly on
the zval pointer received from the caller's invoke() loop. That pointer
lives inside the shared HashTable of the input array, so the in-place
conversion silently changed the type of the original PHP array element
(int -> double, or int/float -> string) visible to the caller after
invoke() returned.

Fix rfc_set_float_value: extract the numeric value with a direct cast
instead of calling convert_to_double.

Fix rfc_set_bcd_decfloat_value: copy the zval with ZVAL_COPY_VALUE
before calling convert_to_string, so the caller's value is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ructs

rfc_get_int1_value and rfc_get_int2_value used (int) when assigning to
ZVAL_LONG, which expects zend_long. On 64-bit platforms zend_long is 64
bits while int is 32 bits; the intermediate (int) cast was superfluous
and inconsistent with the (zend_long) cast already used by INT8. Change
both to (zend_long) for consistency.

Remove three unused struct typedefs from exceptions.c
(sapnwrfc_exception_object, sapnwrfc_connection_exception_object,
sapnwrfc_functioncall_exception_object). The exception classes use
standard PHP registration without custom allocators, so these structs
were dead code. The first also had an incorrect pointer member
(zend_object *zobj) instead of the embedded form used everywhere else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n table read

RfcMoveTo return value was silently ignored and both RfcMoveTo and
RfcGetCurrentRow were called with NULL for error_info, losing any
SDK error details. RfcGetCurrentRow result was also never checked for
NULL before being passed to rfc_get_table_line, which would have
dereferenced the NULL handle via RfcDescribeType.

Now check RfcMoveTo rc, check RfcGetCurrentRow for NULL, and capture
error_info in both calls so exceptions carry meaningful error messages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
param_idx was declared int while param_count is RFC_UINT (unsigned int),
causing MSVC C4018 warning. Changed loop variable to unsigned int.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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