[PATCH] regexec: Fix off-by-one bug in weight comparison [BZ #23036]

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/11/2018 06:20 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index 2e7e7837ac..c5c78ffd3b 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
>>     [22947] FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
>>     [22963] cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
>>     [23005] Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation failure
>> +  [23036] regexec: Fix off-by-one bug in weight comparison
>>     [23037] initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
>>     [23069] sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
>>     [23102] Incorrect parsing of consecutive $ variables in runpath entries
> 
> Thanks for backporting this to 2.27.

Thanks for explaining the mystery.  I accidentally passed the wrong 
option to my patch posting script.

Florian