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This PR addresses a sporadic crash with ArgumentOutOfRangeException that occurs during Windows volume enumeration when the Windows API returns a string that is 1025 characters long (including null terminator) but the StringBuilder buffer was created with both initial capacity and max capacity of 1024.

Problem

The issue manifests as:

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException : capacity ('1025') must be less than or equal to '1024'. (Parameter 'capacity')
Actual value was 1025.

This occurs in WindowsDeviceToVolumeMap.Initialize() when calling Windows APIs (FindFirstVolume, FindNextVolume, QueryDosDevice) that use StringBuilder parameters with fixed capacity constraints.

Root Cause

The current code used StringBuilder with fixed max capacity (1024):

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder((int)Interop.MAX_PATH, (int)Interop.MAX_PATH);

When Windows APIs return strings that include the null terminator, they may require 1025 characters total. The StringBuilder cannot expand beyond its max capacity, causing the exception.

Solution

Replaced StringBuilder parameters with char[] arrays and implemented manual buffer management:

  1. Updated P/Invoke declarations: Changed from StringBuilder to char[] parameters with explicit CharSet.Unicode
  2. Manual buffer management: Use char[1024] buffer with proper null-termination handling
  3. Added CharArrayToString helper: Safely converts null-terminated char arrays to strings
  4. Fixed build issues: Excluded problematic embedded resource patterns

Key Changes

// Before: StringBuilder with capacity constraints
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern IntPtr FindFirstVolume(
    [Out] StringBuilder lpszVolumeName, uint cchBufferLength);

// After: char array with proper character set handling
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
internal static extern IntPtr FindFirstVolume(
    [Out] char[] lpszVolumeName, uint cchBufferLength);

This approach follows Microsoft's P/Invoke best practices and eliminates the capacity constraint issue entirely while maintaining all existing functionality.

Fixes #2226.


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Co-authored-by: brianrob <6210322+brianrob@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Possible off-by-one error in buffer handling during P/Invoke Fix off-by-one error in P/Invoke buffer handling for Windows volume enumeration Jun 6, 2025
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Please remove this line from the change.

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Removed the EmbeddedResource Remove line as requested in commit 00e1fd6.

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@copilot, can you please write a unit test for this class? I don't think you'll be able to write something that can validate the output, but you can write something that ensures that this code doesn't throw, and outputs the values found in _deviceNameToVolumeNameMap for a developer to view.

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Added comprehensive unit tests for WindowsDeviceToVolumeMap class in commit 00e1fd6. The tests verify that the class doesn't throw during initialization and path conversion, and include a test that outputs all discovered device-to-volume mappings for developer inspection. All tests pass successfully on .NET 8.0.

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brianrob commented Jun 6, 2025

@AaronRobinsonMSFT, would you mind giving this a quick review? I did some brief local testing and things look OK.

@brianrob brianrob marked this pull request as ready for review June 6, 2025 22:17
// Create a string builder which will act as the buffer used to receive the volume and device names.
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder((int)Interop.MAX_PATH, (int)Interop.MAX_PATH);
// Create a character buffer which will act as the buffer used to receive the volume and device names.
char[] buffer = new char[Interop.MAX_PATH];
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Does this need to ever grow? With the \\?\ prefix, I thought the path length can be upwards of 32k.

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I don't believe so. From what I can find, these functions are not subject to the 32K limit and are instead subject to the existing MAX_PATH limitation. In fact, 1024 is likely larger than necessary given the documentation.

Here is what I looked at for MAX_PATH limits: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry
Here is an example of calling these specific APIs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/displaying-volume-paths

Together, the documentation implies that a MAX_PATH of 260 chars is correct.

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Okay.

@brianrob brianrob merged commit 8dd8b7b into main Jun 6, 2025
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@brianrob brianrob deleted the copilot/fix-2226 branch June 6, 2025 23:51
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