[klibc] [klibc:update-dash] [JOBS] Fix off-by-one error for multiple of four job numbers

klibc-bot for Harald van Dijk harald at gigawatt.nl
Thu Jan 24 19:15:13 PST 2019


Commit-ID:  f81d1584a063044567d4e530fdc4aa242e907637
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git;a=commit;h=f81d1584a063044567d4e530fdc4aa242e907637
Author:     Harald van Dijk <harald at gigawatt.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:27:13 +0800
Committer:  Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
CommitDate: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:57:21 +0000

[klibc] [JOBS] Fix off-by-one error for multiple of four job numbers

On 29/07/13 23:44, Luigi Tarenga wrote:
> hi list,
> while writing a script to execute parallel ssh command on many host I found
> a strange behavior of dash. I can replicate it with a very simple script but
> didn't find any documentation about dash or POSIX that can explain it.
>
> tested on centos 6.4 (dash 0.5.5.1) and wih dash compiled from source (0.5.7)
> the following script reports error:
>
> #!/bin/dash
>
> sleep 3 &
> sleep 3 &
> sleep 3 &
> sleep 3 &
>
> #/bin/true
> jobs -l
>
> wait %1
> wait %2
> wait %3
> wait %4
>
> [vortex at lizard ~]$ ./dash-0.5.7/src/dash test.sh
> [4] + 4569 Running
> [3] - 4568 Running
> [2]   4567 Running
> [1]   4566 Running
> prova: 14: wait: No such job: %4
> [vortex at lizard ~]$ echo $?
> 2

Yes, this looks like a bug to me. The number of allocated jobs is always
kept as a multiple of four, and the first check in considering whether
the job number is valid is "if it's greater than or equal to the number
of allocated job, it's invalid". That doesn't look right. That would
only be right if jobs were zero-based, but they aren't. If it's exactly
equal to the number of available jobs, it can still be valid. It works
when adding /bin/true, because four more more jobs end up allocated
internally.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>

---
 usr/dash/jobs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr/dash/jobs.c b/usr/dash/jobs.c
index 009bbfee..1c6c6fbd 100644
--- a/usr/dash/jobs.c
+++ b/usr/dash/jobs.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ check:
 
 	if (is_number(p)) {
 		num = atoi(p);
-		if (num < njobs) {
+		if (num <= njobs) {
 			jp = jobtab + num - 1;
 			if (jp->used)
 				goto gotit;


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