Closed Bug 1428982 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Skip the rules of anonymous boxes that use something other than a universal selector

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(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement)

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: kuoe0.tw, Assigned: kuoe0.tw)

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In [1], Firefox crashes when there is any rule of an anonymous box that uses something other than a universal selector. It would be better to skip the rule in order to prevent the crash.


[1]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/cf149b7b63ff97023e28723167725e38cf5df757/servo/components/style/stylist.rs#2020
Assignee: nobody → kuoe0
Attachment #8940986 - Flags: review?(cam)
I think it's acceptable to crash given it's a debug-only assertion, fwiw.
I think ideally the check would be done during CSS parsing (that's where the old style system does it, and it drops the rule and outputs a PEAnonBoxNotAlone error to the console).  But that seems slightly annoying to thread through the selectors code.  To me it seems on par with specifying an unknown pseudo-element.  Crashing is also probably not helpful for fuzzers, which like to generate randomized style sheet input to use in debug builds.
(In reply to Cameron McCormack (:heycam) from comment #3)
> Crashing is also probably not helpful for
> fuzzers, which like to generate randomized style sheet input to use in debug
> builds.

Yeah, that's fair, though fuzzers can't fuzz UA sheets, and we don't parse these pseudos in other sheets, so it's impossible for them to hit this assertion AIUI.
Comment on attachment 8940986 [details]
Bug 1428982 - Skip the rules of anonymous boxes that use something other than a universal selector.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/211260/#review217430
Attachment #8940986 - Flags: review?(cam) → review+
I also agree with Emilio on the debug-only. And in my opinion, I think the debug-only crash is helpful for developers to notice that they write some wrong rules, because we can know which line causes the crash in the crash log. If we just skip the rules, it would be more difficult for developers to know why the rules are not working. So, I decide to close this bug for now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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