[PATCH] Fix two bugs in argz
Jeff Johnston
jjohnstn@redhat.com
Wed May 23 16:09:00 GMT 2007
Yes, please apply.
-- Jeff J.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I tried to use newlib's argz functions and stumbled over two
> bugs in the implementation:
>
> - argz_create_sep misses to set *argz_len to 0 before counting the bytes
> in the input string, thus working with a potentially uninitialized
> value. This breaks applications which don't set the input parameter
> explicitely to 0 before calling argz_create_sep. This does not happen
> when using the glibc implementation of argz_create_sep.
>
> Note that setting *argz_len to 0 does not break the usage of
> argz_create_sep from argz_add_sep.
>
> - argz.h is neither guarded for use with C++, nor is it guarded against
> multiple inclusion.
>
>
> Patch below. Ok to commit?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> * libc/argz/argz_create_sep.c (argz_create_sep): Initialize *argz_len
> to zero.
> * libc/include/argz.h: Guard against multiple inclusion. Guard for
> use with C++.
>
>
> Index: libc/argz/argz_create_sep.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/newlib/libc/argz/argz_create_sep.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -p -r1.2 argz_create_sep.c
> --- libc/argz/argz_create_sep.c 6 Jun 2003 19:57:51 -0000 1.2
> +++ libc/argz/argz_create_sep.c 22 May 2007 10:07:39 -0000
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ _DEFUN (argz_create_sep, (string, sep, a
> running = strdup(string);
> old_running = running;
>
> + *argz_len = 0;
> while ((token = strsep(&running, delim)))
> {
> len = strlen(token);
> Index: libc/include/argz.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/newlib/libc/include/argz.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -r1.1 argz.h
> --- libc/include/argz.h 14 Jun 2002 20:51:09 -0000 1.1
> +++ libc/include/argz.h 22 May 2007 10:07:39 -0000
> @@ -4,9 +4,16 @@
> * is freely granted, provided that this notice is preserved.
> */
>
> +#ifndef _ARGZ_H_
> +#define _ARGZ_H_
> +
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
>
> +#include "_ansi.h"
> +
> +_BEGIN_STD_C
> +
> /* The newlib implementation of these functions assumes that sizeof(char) == 1. */
> error_t argz_create (char *const argv[], char **argz, size_t *argz_len);
> error_t argz_create_sep (const char *string, int sep, char **argz, size_t *argz_len);
> @@ -20,3 +27,7 @@ error_t argz_delete (char **argz, size_t
> error_t argz_insert (char **argz, size_t *argz_len, char *before, const char *entry);
> char * argz_next (char *argz, size_t argz_len, const char *entry);
> error_t argz_replace (char **argz, size_t *argz_len, const char *str, const char *with, unsigned *replace_count);
> +
> +_END_STD_C
> +
> +#endif /* _ARGZ_H_ */
>
>
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