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fix: dangling WebContents/NativeWindow pointers in debugger, devtools, login, modal and process-reuse paths - #53287
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…destroyed webContents The Debugger held its own raw pointer to the content::WebContents alongside the WebContentsObserver base, and that copy was never cleared when the WebContents went away. Calling attach() after webContents.destroy() then handed a freed pointer to DevToolsAgentHost::GetOrCreateFor. Drop the duplicate member and use WebContentsObserver::web_contents(), which is reset on destruction, so attach() now throws "No target available". (cherry picked from commit 74bf5c0)
…t is destroyed InspectableWebContents only starts observing the externally supplied devtools WebContents once ShowDevTools() runs, so if that WebContents was destroyed between setDevToolsWebContents() and openDevTools() the stored raw pointer dangled and ShowDevTools() observed and navigated freed memory. Hold the external devtools WebContents as a base::WeakPtr so it reads as null once destroyed, in which case we fall back to the built-in devtools window exactly as if none had been assigned. (cherry picked from commit 9e4a9b8)
…d webContents ElectronBrowserClient remembers which WebContents most recently claimed each pending renderer process so AppendExtraCommandLineSwitches can find its preferences. The map held raw WebContents pointers and was only pruned when the RenderProcessHost itself was destroyed, so when two webContents shared a process and the registrant was destroyed, re-initialising that process (for example to start a service worker) read the freed WebContents. Store base::WeakPtr<content::WebContents> in the map and fall back to the live-WebContents lookup when the entry has gone away. (cherry picked from commit 28ff3a9)
…ge is pending LoginHandler posts a task to emit the 'login' event and bound the raw content::WebContents pointer into it. If the WebContents was destroyed between the auth challenge arriving and that task running, EmitEvent looked up api::WebContents from a freed pointer. Bind a base::WeakPtr to the WebContents instead and cancel the auth request when it has gone away, matching what we already do when the JS wrapper is gone. (cherry picked from commit fdfd411)
…destroyed NativeWindow stored its parent as a raw pointer with a comment claiming the parent outlives the child, but nothing enforces that: destroy()ing the parent leaves the child alive, and the next hide()/show() on a modal child called into the freed parent to update its modal-child count. Hold the parent as a base::WeakPtr<NativeWindow> so parent() returns null once the parent window is gone and those paths become no-ops. (cherry picked from commit e7881de)
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Backport of #53257
See that PR for details.
Notes: Fixed crashes when a webContents or parent window is destroyed while other APIs still reference it.