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what

Since fopen_s, which is used in win32, is more secure, we defined and implemented it internally so that it can be used in other operating systems as well.
Since fopen_s can have name conflicts, we're creating it as fopen_modsec.

why

SonarCloud Code Analysis has started causing errors with fopen.

'fopen' is deprecated: This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using fopen_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details.

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I can't commit to @kanseiishikawa's fork, so forked that branch from #3582 and rebased on a fresh v3/master.
The goal is to resolve this error.
https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/pull/3521/changes#diff-2f0c197bfdbe90b112359e18d7980ca2c8535fe1cbd47ce1029c27130812de2aR113

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved file access when loading included configuration and shared files across supported platforms.
    • Kept existing error reporting and handling when files cannot be opened.
  • Compatibility

    • On Windows, files can now be opened with shared access, reducing conflicts with other processes.
    • File-opening behavior is consistent across configuration loading, shared files, and file checks.

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  • src/parser/seclang-scanner.cc
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The change adds fopen_modsec with platform-specific file-opening behavior. Parser include paths, shared-file handling, and isFile now use this helper.

Changes: Portable file-opening

Layer / File(s) Summary
File-opening helper contract
src/utils/system.h
The system utilities declare fopen_modsec and include the FILE type required by the interface.
Platform-specific helper implementation
src/utils/system.cc
fopen_modsec uses _fsopen with _SH_DENYNO on MSVC and fopen on other platforms. isFile now uses the helper.
Parser and shared-file integration
src/parser/seclang-scanner.cc, src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll, src/utils/shared_files.cc
Quoted and unquoted parser include paths, plus shared-file opening, now call fopen_modsec. Existing failure handling remains unchanged.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: 3.x

Suggested reviewers: fzipi, airween

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 1c49c

The portable file-opening change preserves existing failure handling and addresses shared-file behavior on MSVC; no concrete merge-blocking risk was established.

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When we merge this PR, we can close #3582 as a duplicate.
After that I can pull the changes into #3521 and into owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity-nginx#372

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In `@src/utils/system.cc`:
- Line 227: Update the MSVC path in fopen_modsec to open SharedFiles-compatible
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Quality Gate Failed Quality Gate failed

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8.3% Duplication on New Code (required ≤ 3%)

See analysis details on SonarQube Cloud

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@airween please review this PR. I've fixed CodeRabbit's comment. The Sonar complaint is false-positive -- it complains because one line of code used in 2 places

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Thanks @AntonDemushkin, and thanks @kanseiishikawa for the original work in #3582!

What I checked:

  • Built this head on macOS (Homebrew yajl/pcre2) and ran make check: 5025 pass, 18 skip, 0 fail, including config-include.json and config-include-bad.json. cppcheck is clean on system.cc and shared_files.cc.
  • Every raw fopen() in src/ is converted: isFile, SharedFiles::add_new_handler and both Include forms in the scanner. Error paths are unchanged.
  • On POSIX the helper is plain fopen (same mode/umask, same semantics). On MSVC, _fsopen(..., _SH_DENYNO) should match the sharing mode the UCRT's plain fopen uses, as far as I know, so this is behaviour-neutral. Moving away from fopen_s was the right call: it opens non-sharable and would have broken multiple workers appending to the same audit/debug log.

Comments:

  1. (blocking) src/parser/seclang-scanner.cc was edited by hand and no longer matches seclang-scanner.ll. Lines 8392 and 8423 carry a // NOSONAR that isn't in the .ll, and the blank line before the second fopen_modsec call was removed. Regenerating with flex 2.6.4 drops both, so the next parser regeneration would silently revert them. NOSONAR doesn't affect the duplication metric anyway. Could you drop the two // NOSONAR comments and restore the blank line, or just regenerate the .cc from the .ll?
  2. (blocking, maintainer-side) The Actions runs for 32cec37 never started (startup failure, 0 jobs), so neither the Linux/macOS matrix nor the Windows build has compiled this head. The _MSC_VER branch with <share.h>/_fsopen needs at least one green Windows build before we merge. ci.yml has changed on v3/master since your base, so could you rebase onto current v3/master? That should give us fresh runs.
  3. (non-blocking) About Sonar: the 8.3% duplication most likely comes from the two near-identical Include blocks in the generated scanner, which this PR only touches by one line each. I agree it's not something to fix here. The generated parser/scanner should really be excluded from Sonar's duplication check, as it already is for cppcheck.
  4. (non-blocking, style) Returning FILE * instead of bool + out-param would make each call site a one-liner (yyin = fopen_modsec(...)) and remove the nullptr guards. Totally fine to keep as is.
  5. (non-blocking, follow-up idea) Since all log/include opens now go through one helper, it would be a good place to set FD_CLOEXEC on POSIX later. That belongs in a separate PR so this one stays behaviour-neutral.

Once 1 and 2 are sorted, I'm happy to approve. We can then close #3582 as superseded and move on to #3521 and ModSecurity-nginx#372.

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@fzipi thank you for your feedback!

Regarding your comments:

  1. I tried regenerating the .cc file and got too many updated lines (mostly line numbers). I'm not sure if this is correct or related to my pc setup. The changes you mentioned were reverted as well. I committed only the lines you mentioned because I'm not sure about others.
  2. Rebased
  3. I have no idea how the Sonar actually configured, there is no config in this repository. Should it be in .sonarcloud.properties or in sonar-project.properties? I can create the file with a content like this:
  src/parser/seclang-parser.hh,\
  src/parser/seclang-scanner.cc,\
  src/parser/location.hh,\
  src/parser/position.hh,\
  src/parser/stack.hh

Also we can miss something by excluding these files. A repo owner feedback is required for this point. Though this could be a separate PR. Skipping this point for now.
4. Done.
5. This idea is for a separate PR, so skipping it now.

I've built and run all tests twice on my linux: with and without --enable-regex-dollar-endonly param.

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