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* [musl] Bug: BOL/EOL anchors in regex capture groups won't match EOL
@ 2022-07-21  6:08 Mike Beattie
  2022-07-22  2:02 ` [musl] " Mike Beattie
  2022-08-03 22:43 ` [musl] " Szabolcs Nagy
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike Beattie @ 2022-07-21  6:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

FRRouting uses musl-libc in its docker container build, and it also appears
to be in use in the GNS3 appliances for frr available online.

BGP as-path matching is regex powered, and usage of a special token of '_'
allows for the easy matching of the boundary of an ASN in an as-path.
Internally, it's translated into the regex capture group of:

   (^|[,{}() ]|$)

A valid as-path is a sequence of integers such as:

   100 200 300

A BGP as-path filter might be specified as so:

   bgp as-path access-list foo seq 20 permit _300_

which would get expanded to:

   (^|[,{}() ]|$)300(^|[,{}() ]|$)

when checking for a match. The usage of the pattern "(^|$)" in musl's regex
implementation will never match EOL, but it does match BOL. Removal of the
circumflex will let the match succeed.

Here is the output of a test programs I've written to confirm this:

   $ musl-gcc -o r r.c

   $ ./r "_300_" "100 200 300"
   regex: (^|[,{}() ]|$)300(^|[,{}() ]|$)
   regexec on [100 200 300]: NOT Found

Removal of "^|" from the beginning of the trailing capture group:

   $ ./r "(^|[,{}() ]|$)300([,{}() ]|$)" "0000 1111 2222"
   regex: (^|[,{}() ]|$)300([,{}() ]|$)
   regexec on [100 200 300]: Found

Thanks,
Mike.
-- 
Mike Beattie <mike@ethernal.org>

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