Open Bug 1381935 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Add interface blocking to LazyInstantiator

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Disability Access APIs
Platform:
Unspecified
Windows
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

Some a11y instantiators might query for interfaces that we don't support. Unfortunately they have to start a11y to make those queries.

If we added a filter to LazyInstantiator's QueryInterface, we could preemptively return E_NOINTERFACE on those ones that we know for sure we do not support.

We could also add telemetry for any QIs that forced instantiation but were for unsupported interfaces.
I'd like to see this fixed. I wonder if anyone not Aaron can help?
Flags: needinfo?(jmathies)
Priority: -- → P2
Flags: needinfo?(surkov.alexander)
I don't have the cycles for this myself but I'll keep on eye on it. I also don't have any free hands on the team right now.
Flags: needinfo?(jmathies)
I'd be indeed curious to see a percent of accessibility instantiations by clients requesting unsupported interfaces. I'm not sure though about a technical side here, iirc WM_GETOBJECT always returns IAccessible interface, which assumes accessibility is running.
Flags: needinfo?(surkov.alexander)
Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information
Priority: P2 → P3
Severity: normal → S3
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