QObjectBindableProperty: Avoid use-after-free in notifyObservers

We so far refetched the first observer after evaluating bindings, as
binding evaluating might change the list of observers.
However, that approach did not take into account that the 'this' pointer
might no longer be valid after binding evaluation: In case of a
QObjectBindableProperty (or a QObjectCompatProperty), binding evaluation
might cause a reallocation of the binding storage, and consequently the
invalidation of the QPropertyBindingData.
Fix this by refetching the QPropertyBindingData from the storage (if a
storage has been provided, which is always the case for the affected
classes).

Fixes: QTBUG-111268
Pick-to: 6.5 6.4 6.2
Change-Id: Ie7e143a0bbb18f1c3f88a81dd9b31e6af463584f
Reviewed-by: Ivan Solovev <ivan.solovev@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io>

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qproperty.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qproperty.cpp
index 4708a92b9e..05e5ef175f 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qproperty.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qproperty.cpp
@@ -623,7 +623,15 @@ void QPropertyBindingData::notifyObservers(QUntypedPropertyData *propertyDataPtr
     PendingBindingObserverList bindingObservers;
     if (QPropertyObserverPointer observer = d.firstObserver()) {
         if (notifyObserver_helper(propertyDataPtr, storage, observer, bindingObservers) == Evaluated) {
-            // evaluateBindings() can trash the observers. We need to re-fetch here.
+            /* evaluateBindings() can trash the observers. We need to re-fetch here.
+             "this" might also no longer be valid in case we have a QObjectBindableProperty
+             and consequently d isn't either (this happens when binding evaluation has
+             caused the binding storage to resize.
+             If storage is nullptr, then there is no dynamically resizable storage,
+             and we cannot run into the issue.
+            */
+            if (storage)
+                d = QPropertyBindingDataPointer {storage->bindingData(propertyDataPtr)};
             if (QPropertyObserverPointer observer = d.firstObserver())
                 observer.notify(propertyDataPtr);
             for (auto &&bindingObserver: bindingObservers)
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qproperty/tst_qproperty.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qproperty/tst_qproperty.cpp
index f849cfa770..8e9192c27e 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qproperty/tst_qproperty.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qproperty/tst_qproperty.cpp
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ private slots:
     void quntypedBindableApi();
     void readonlyConstQBindable();
     void qobjectBindableManualNotify();
+    void qobjectBindableReallocatedBindingStorage();
     void qobjectBindableSignalTakingNewValue();
 
     void testNewStuff();
@@ -1188,6 +1189,23 @@ void tst_QProperty::qobjectBindableManualNotify()
     QCOMPARE(object.foo(), 1);
 }
 
+
+struct ReallocObject : QObject {
+    ReallocObject()
+    { v.setBinding([this] { return x.value() + y.value() + z.value(); }); }
+    Q_OBJECT_BINDABLE_PROPERTY(ReallocObject, int, v)
+    Q_OBJECT_BINDABLE_PROPERTY(ReallocObject, int, x)
+    Q_OBJECT_BINDABLE_PROPERTY(ReallocObject, int, y)
+    Q_OBJECT_BINDABLE_PROPERTY(ReallocObject, int, z)
+};
+
+void tst_QProperty::qobjectBindableReallocatedBindingStorage()
+{
+    ReallocObject object;
+    object.x = 1;
+    QCOMPARE(object.v.value(), 1);
+}
+
 void tst_QProperty::qobjectBindableSignalTakingNewValue()
 {
     // Given an object of type MyQObject,