Re: PATCH: Crash bug on garbage input (previously reported to Debian)

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> Here's a simple fix for appending to the input buffer instead of
> replacing it for this case.
>
> diff --git a/Src/input.c b/Src/input.c
> index 9520fdd..f919e57 100644
> --- a/Src/input.c
> +++ b/Src/input.c
> @@ -330,8 +330,37 @@ inputline(void)
>         }
>      }
>      isfirstch = 1;
> -    /* Put this into the input channel. */
> -    inputsetline(ingetcline, INP_FREE);
> +    if ((inbufflags & INP_APPEND) && inbuf) {
> +       /*
> +        * We need new input but need to be able to back up
> +        * over the old input, so append this line.
> +        * Pushing the line onto the stack doesn't have the right
> +        * effect.
> +        *
> +        * This is quite a simple and inefficient fix, but currently
> +        * we only need it when backing up over a multi-line $((...
> +        * that turned out to be a command substitution rather than
> +        * a math substitution, which is a very special case.
> +        * So it's not worth rewriting.
> +        */
> +       char *oinbuf = inbuf;
> +       int newlen = strlen(ingetcline);
> +       int oldlen = (int)(inbufptr - inbuf) + inbufleft;
> +       if (inbufflags & INP_FREE) {
> +           inbuf = realloc(inbuf, oldlen + newlen + 1);
> +           inbufptr += inbuf - oinbuf;
> +           strcpy(inbuf + oldlen, ingetcline);

Coverity complains that ingetcline is not freed in the above path.
+free(ingetcline); here?

> +       } else {
> +           /* Paranoia: don't think this is used */
> +           DPUTS(1, "Appending to unallocated input line.");
> +       }
> +       inbufleft += newlen;
> +       inbufct += newlen;
> +       inbufflags |= INP_FREE;
> +    } else {
> +       /* Put this into the input channel. */
> +       inputsetline(ingetcline, INP_FREE);
> +    }
>
>      return 0;
>  }


-- 
Mikael Magnusson