Ben Bucksch (:BenB) Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

I am currently in a situation where I cannot close the native file picker dialog that opens for a <input type="file"> element on a webpage. I can use the dialog just fine, it's working, just the "Cancel" and "Open" buttons have no effect. I can still use other Firefox windows, luckily, but I cannot access the Firefox window that opened the dialog, I cannot close that Firefox window either. I am stuck.

I had pressed the "Open" button of the dialog before. The webpage, in the background, was opening an alert() (apparently) that shows an error message from the web app. This might be what is causing the deadlock.

I see nothing relevant on the error console.
The web app is the admin frontend of a phone system (gigaset IP).

	Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]
	Comment 2 • 13 years ago

This has nothing to do with form submission; it sounds like an OS-specific event delivery issue...

	Ben Bucksch (:BenB) Reporter
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

In case you need me to check something, I still have the window open, but I'll have to close it some time.

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 4 • 13 years ago

I managed to create a testcase for it. Would be nice to have someone reproducing that on Windows or MacOS X to check if that's really platform specific.

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 5 • 13 years ago

Actually, it breaks MacOS X and GTK but not Windows... and the way it breaks on MacOS X is different than GTK: the alert is never shown and the application is hanging when you click on OK or CANCEL.

	Alice0775 White
	Comment 6 • 13 years ago

FYI
If I set prompts.tab_modal.enabled to false, Browser does not hang on Nightly 8.0a1 of Windows and Linux.(not testing on MacOS)

	Pierre Réveillon
	Comment 7 • 12 years ago

Isn't it the same bug as #476541?

	Pierre Réveillon
	Comment 8 • 12 years ago

Soory for the missing link, it's bug 476541.

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 9 • 12 years ago

(In reply to Pierre Réveillon from comment #7)
> Isn't it the same bug as #476541?

On Mac yes. But it seems like it's reproducible using the GTK widget.
We could make this GTK though.

	Ben Bucksch (:BenB) Reporter
	Comment 10 • 12 years ago

Per comment 2, back to GTK

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 11 • 12 years ago

Nested event loops are evil, and multiple nested event loops are more evil
(if there is such a thing).

The bug is in the nsIFilePicker::show interface because the "show" method
can't return until it knows what the user selects.  That means that either the
whole application needs pause while waiting for the response or the "show"
implementation needs to run a nested event loop. 

Further gtk_dialog_run doesn't hide the modal window.  It is not closed until
gtk_dialog_run returns which will not happen until the nested event loop
exits.

The tab-modal alert is implemented with another nested event loop.
That means that the gtk_dialog_run nested event loop can't return until the
tab-modal alert is dismissed.  The modal dialog prevents the tab-modal alert
from being dismissed.

We could adjust the GTK nsIFilePicker implementation to hide the dialog when
the buttons are pressed (instead of waiting for the event loop to exit), but
there would still be a bug:  The file would not be selected until the tab-modal
alert has been dismissed.

Bug 729720 comment 4 also wanted to make the filepicker interface async.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 12 • 12 years ago

A similar bug exists on Win7, although there is a race condition.
If the file picker opens before the alert, then the file picker can be dismissed and then the alert.

However, sometimes the file picker does not open but the window with the alert becomes unresponsive.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 13 • 12 years ago

Steven's work in bug 729720 comment 26 would go a long way in helping here.

	Ben Bucksch (:BenB) Reporter
	Comment 14 • 12 years ago

Thanks for the reference, but I saw the bug on GTK.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 15 • 12 years ago

Part of Steven's patchset is cross platform to provide an async show() method.

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 16 • 12 years ago

I think this bug should depend on bug 731307 instead.

	Gábor Stefanik
	Comment 17 • 12 years ago

Isn't this security-sensitive?

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 18 • 12 years ago

Those bugs where "sec:dos" before. How should they be marked now Jesse?

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 19 • 12 years ago

Keep using [sg:dos] for now. We might add a csec-dos keyword eventually.

	Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)
	Comment 20 • 12 years ago

This should have been fixed by bug 731307. Might be nice if that could be checked by QA using the latest Nightly.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 21 • 12 years ago

Bug 731307 added suitable API, and moves the nested event loop to run off an event, but, to fix the bug, we still need to not wait for the nested event loop to return.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 22 • 12 years ago

Even the sync Show() variant doesn't demonstrate this lock-up any longer due to closing the window before waiting for the stack to unwind, but that method still has other bugs related to not unwinding the stack.  

gtk_window_set_destroy_with_parent is used to release the nsIFilePickerShownCallback (for the async variant) before XPCOM shutdown, when quitting from another window while the file dialog is still open.  (That is the only reason the "destroy" handler is required.)  The file picker would be of limited use without a parent anyway.

	Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)
	Comment 23 • 12 years ago

Comment on attachment 654062 [details] [diff] [review]
implement async nsIFilePicker::Open and make sync Show close window on response

Review of attachment 654062 [details] [diff] [review]:
-----------------------------------------------------------------

cool!

::: widget/gtk2/nsFilePicker.cpp
@@ +377,5 @@
> +  nsresult rv = Open(nullptr);
> +  if (NS_FAILED(rv))
> +    return rv;
> +
> +  while(mRunning) {

space before (

::: widget/xpwidgets/nsBaseFilePicker.cpp
@@ +101,5 @@
>    nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable> filePickerEvent =
>      new AsyncShowFilePicker(this, aCallback);
>    return NS_DispatchToMainThread(filePickerEvent);
>  }
> +#endif

Do we really need these #ifdefs? Seems to me we don't.

	Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) Assignee
	Comment 24 • 12 years ago

The ifdefs were to help clarify which code in the override hierarchy actually gets used, but dead code is generally left in the build, so followed style there.

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/d066131af975

There was a single try build here:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=6bcd619f0b76
It is hard to test this as it is difficult to send events to native dialogs.

	Ed Morley [:emorley]
	Comment 25 • 12 years ago

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d066131af975

	Merih Akar
	Comment 26 • 12 years ago

The bug appears to be fixed in FF17, however I am currently using FF17 and the test page above still blocks the entire window. Am I missing something?