[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.4.0] Pass NULL to lpApplicationName in CreateProcessA().

[teor at torproject.org]

commit 4be522b2e6eb634b141d7876234acf40a931cab6
Author: Alexander Færøy <ahf at torproject.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 25 03:00:53 2019 +0100

    Pass NULL to lpApplicationName in CreateProcessA().
    
    When NULL is given to lpApplicationName we enable Windows' "magical"
    path interpretation logic, which makes Tor 0.4.x behave in the same way
    as previous Tor versions did when it comes to executing binaries in
    different system paths.
    
    For more information about this have a look at the CreateProcessA()
    documentation on MSDN -- especially the string interpretation example is
    useful to understand this issue.
    
    This bug was introduced in commit bfb94dd2ca8.
    
    See: https://bugs.torproject.org/29874
---
 changes/bug29874                | 4 ++++
 src/lib/process/process_win32.c | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/bug29874 b/changes/bug29874
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8534753b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug29874
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
+    - Restore old behaviour when it comes to discovering the path of a given
+      Pluggable Transport exe-file. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
+
diff --git a/src/lib/process/process_win32.c b/src/lib/process/process_win32.c
index 21d0b2347..ddbe76bfd 100644
--- a/src/lib/process/process_win32.c
+++ b/src/lib/process/process_win32.c
@@ -152,11 +152,6 @@ process_win32_exec(process_t *process)
   HANDLE stdin_pipe_read = NULL;
   HANDLE stdin_pipe_write = NULL;
   BOOL ret = FALSE;
-  const char *filename = process_get_command(process);
-
-  /* Not much we can do if we haven't been told what to start. */
-  if (BUG(filename == NULL))
-    return PROCESS_STATUS_ERROR;
 
   /* Setup our security attributes. */
   SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES security_attributes;
@@ -211,7 +206,7 @@ process_win32_exec(process_t *process)
   char *joined_argv = tor_join_win_cmdline((const char **)argv);
 
   /* Create the child process */
-  ret = CreateProcessA(filename,
+  ret = CreateProcessA(NULL,
                        joined_argv,
                        NULL,
                        NULL,