[klibc] [klibc:update-dash] dash: expand: 'nolog' and 'debug' options cause "$-" to wreak havoc

klibc-bot for Martijn Dekker martijn at inlv.org
Sat Mar 28 14:48:58 PDT 2020


Commit-ID:  8d7c846f252b7eabd7cb7d02e7b53fb5a835402e
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git;a=commit;h=8d7c846f252b7eabd7cb7d02e7b53fb5a835402e
Author:     Martijn Dekker <martijn at inlv.org>
AuthorDate: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:40:37 +0000
Committer:  Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
CommitDate: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:42:54 +0000

[klibc] dash: expand: 'nolog' and 'debug' options cause "$-" to wreak havoc

[ dash commit 81a501b7fbcff8da004251a85a8f948263254aa5 ]

Op 29-03-17 om 20:02 schreef Martijn Dekker:
> Bug: if either the 'nolog' or the 'debug' option is set, trying to
> expand "$-" silently aborts parsing of an entire argument.
>
> $ dash -o nolog -c 'set -fuC; echo "|$- are the options|"; \
> 	set +o nolog; echo "|$- are the options|"'
> |
> |uCf are the options|
> $ dash -o debug -c 'set -fuC; echo "|$- are the options|"; \
> 	set +o debug; echo "|$- are the options|"'
> |
> |uCf are the options|

This turned out to be easy to fix. The routine producing the "$-"
expansion failed to skip options for which there is no option letter,
but only a long-form name. In dash, 'nolog' and 'debug' are currently
the only two such options. Patch below.

- Martijn

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

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

diff --git a/usr/dash/expand.c b/usr/dash/expand.c
index 153f6b7a..e86bd29d 100644
--- a/usr/dash/expand.c
+++ b/usr/dash/expand.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ numvar:
 	case '-':
 		p = makestrspace(NOPTS, expdest);
 		for (i = NOPTS - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-			if (optlist[i]) {
+			if (optlist[i] && optletters[i]) {
 				USTPUTC(optletters[i], p);
 				len++;
 			}


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