Bug 214973

Summary: bmake segfault on parenthesized variables.
Product: Base System Reporter: Ori Bernstein <ori>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-toolchain (Nobody) <toolchain>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: markj
Priority: --- Keywords: patch
Version: 11.0-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Fixes segfault in bmake. Possibly sketchy. none

Description Ori Bernstein 2016-12-01 04:27:40 UTC
Created attachment 177565 [details]
Fixes segfault in bmake. Possibly sketchy.

Turns out that I can trivially segfault make with this input:

	(FOO)=val

This happens because in /usr/src/contrib/bmake/parse.c:1862 or
so, we start off with:

	for (depth = 0, cp = line + 1; depth > 0 || *cp != '='; cp++) {

which skips over the opening '(', meaning that when we see the closing ')',
the depth becomes negative, and we never break out of the loop, eventually
reading outside of mapped memory.

Starting off with 'cp = line', as in the attached patch, seems to work,
although I'm a bit suspicious about it breaking some subtle case when
parsing variables.

Still, I tested by:

	cd /usr/src/usr.bin/bmake; make; make install
	cd /usr/src/lib/libc; make clean; make
	
Seems to work. 'make world' is running now.
Comment 1 Mark Johnston freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2024-01-29 19:10:38 UTC
This appears to have been fixed since the bug report was submitted - I can't reproduce the crash on supported FreeBSD versions.  Please re-open if you find this not to be the case.