process: fix reading zero-length env vars on win32

Up until now, Node did not clear the current error code
attempting to read environment variables on Windows.
Since checking the error code is the way we distinguish between
missing and zero-length environment variables, this could lead to a
false positive when the error code was still tainted.

In the simplest case, accessing a missing variable and then a
zero-length one would lead Node to believe that both calls yielded
an error.

Before:

    > process.env.I=''; process.env.Q; process.env.I
    undefined
    > process.env.I=''; /*process.env.Q;*/ process.env.I
    ''

After:

    > process.env.I=''; process.env.Q; process.env.I
    ''
    > process.env.I=''; /*process.env.Q;*/ process.env.I
    ''

This only affects Node 8 and above, since before
1aa595e we always constructed a
`v8::String::Value` instance for passing the lookup key to the OS,
which in in turn always made a heap allocation and therefore
reset the error code.

Backport-PR-URL: #19484
PR-URL: #18463
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>

Author: addaleax

src/node.cc

@@ -2799,6 +2799,7 @@ static void EnvGetter(Local<Name> property,
 #else  // _WIN32
   String::Value key(property);
   WCHAR buffer[32767];  // The maximum size allowed for environment variables.
+  SetLastError(ERROR_SUCCESS);
   DWORD result = GetEnvironmentVariableW(reinterpret_cast<WCHAR*>(*key),
                                          buffer,
                                          arraysize(buffer));
@@ -2846,6 +2847,7 @@ static void EnvQuery(Local<Name> property,
 #else  // _WIN32
   String::Value key(property);
   WCHAR* key_ptr = reinterpret_cast<WCHAR*>(*key);
+  SetLastError(ERROR_SUCCESS);
   if (GetEnvironmentVariableW(key_ptr, nullptr, 0) > 0 ||
       GetLastError() == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
     rc = 0;

test/parallel/test-process-env-windows-error-reset.js

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+// This checks that after accessing a missing env var, a subsequent
+// env read will succeed even for empty variables.
+
+{
+  process.env.FOO = '';
+  process.env.NONEXISTENT_ENV_VAR;
+  const foo = process.env.FOO;
+
+  assert.strictEqual(foo, '');
+}
+
+{
+  process.env.FOO = '';
+  process.env.NONEXISTENT_ENV_VAR;
+  const hasFoo = 'FOO' in process.env;
+
+  assert.strictEqual(hasFoo, true);
+}