[PATCH v3 2/3] Introduce a function to run regexec() on non-NUL-terminated buffers

[Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>]

We just introduced a test that demonstrates that our sloppy use of
regexec() on a mmap()ed area can result in incorrect results or even
hard crashes.

So what we need to fix this is a function that calls regexec() on a
length-delimited, rather than a NUL-terminated, string.

Happily, there is an extension to regexec() introduced by the NetBSD
project and present in all major regex implementation including
Linux', MacOSX' and the one Git includes in compat/regex/: by using
the (non-POSIX) REG_STARTEND flag, it is possible to tell the
regexec() function that it should only look at the offsets between
pmatch[0].rm_so and pmatch[0].rm_eo.

That is exactly what we need.

Since support for REG_STARTEND is so widespread by now, let's just
introduce a helper function that uses it, and fall back to allocating
and constructing a NUL-terminated when REG_STARTEND is not available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 git-compat-util.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index db89ba7..19128b3 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -965,6 +965,27 @@ void git_qsort(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size,
 #define qsort git_qsort
 #endif
 
+static inline int regexec_buf(const regex_t *preg, const char *buf, size_t size,
+			      size_t nmatch, regmatch_t pmatch[], int eflags)
+{
+#ifdef REG_STARTEND
+	assert(nmatch > 0 && pmatch);
+	pmatch[0].rm_so = 0;
+	pmatch[0].rm_eo = size;
+	return regexec(preg, buf, nmatch, pmatch, eflags | REG_STARTEND);
+#else
+	char *buf2 = xmalloc(size + 1);
+	int ret;
+
+	memcpy(buf2, buf, size);
+	buf2[size] = '\0';
+	ret = regexec(preg, buf2, nmatch, pmatch, eflags);
+	free(buf2);
+
+	return ret;
+#endif
+}
+
 #ifndef DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
 # define FORCE_DIR_SET_GID S_ISGID
 #else
-- 
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