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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-01-08 12:16:00 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-01-08 12:16:00 -0500
commitafcc8772edcec687d87b6f762ca6113229af7291 (patch)
tree8d2824f0e3f80518608ce94aaabd6570a6adf2fe
parent15b824da97afb45f47e51b6b5b7e5eca09e5d03d (diff)
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Fix ancient bug in parsing of BRE-mode regular expressions.
brenext(), when parsing a '*' quantifier, forgot to return any "value" for the token; per the equivalent case in next(), it should return value 1 to indicate that greedy rather than non-greedy behavior is wanted. The result is that the compiled regexp could behave like 'x*?' rather than the intended 'x*', if we were unlucky enough to have a zero in v->nextvalue at this point. That seems to happen with some reliability if we have '.*' at the beginning of a BRE-mode regexp, although that depends on the initial contents of a stack-allocated struct, so it's not guaranteed to fail. Found by Alexander Lakhin using valgrind testing. This bug seems to be aboriginal in Spencer's code, so back-patch all the way. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16814-6c5e3edd2bdf0d50@postgresql.org
-rw-r--r--src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c2
-rw-r--r--src/test/modules/test_regex/expected/test_regex.out8
-rw-r--r--src/test/modules/test_regex/sql/test_regex.sql2
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c b/src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c
index 38617b79fd1..ca2bce48312 100644
--- a/src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c
+++ b/src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ brenext(struct vars *v,
case CHR('*'):
if (LASTTYPE(EMPTY) || LASTTYPE('(') || LASTTYPE('^'))
RETV(PLAIN, c);
- RET('*');
+ RETV('*', 1);
break;
case CHR('['):
if (HAVE(6) && *(v->now + 0) == CHR('[') &&
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_regex/expected/test_regex.out b/src/test/modules/test_regex/expected/test_regex.out
index ed1b0cbdb9b..0dc2265d8b2 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_regex/expected/test_regex.out
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_regex/expected/test_regex.out
@@ -614,6 +614,14 @@ ERROR: invalid regular expression: quantifier operand invalid
-- expectError 7.15 - a*+ BADRPT
select * from test_regex('a*+', '', '-');
ERROR: invalid regular expression: quantifier operand invalid
+-- test for ancient brenext() bug; not currently in Tcl
+select * from test_regex('.*b', 'aaabbb', 'b');
+ test_regex
+------------
+ {0}
+ {aaabbb}
+(2 rows)
+
-- doing 8 "braces"
-- expectMatch 8.1 NQ "a{0,1}" "" ""
select * from test_regex('a{0,1}', '', 'NQ');
diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_regex/sql/test_regex.sql b/src/test/modules/test_regex/sql/test_regex.sql
index 4676cd1a060..1a2bfa62357 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_regex/sql/test_regex.sql
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_regex/sql/test_regex.sql
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ select * from test_regex('a?*', '', '-');
select * from test_regex('a+*', '', '-');
-- expectError 7.15 - a*+ BADRPT
select * from test_regex('a*+', '', '-');
+-- test for ancient brenext() bug; not currently in Tcl
+select * from test_regex('.*b', 'aaabbb', 'b');
-- doing 8 "braces"