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Revision 447ac906e189535e77dcb1f4bbe3f1bc917d4c12 authored by Patrick Steinhardt on 01 December 2022, 14:45:31 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 05 December 2022, 06:14:16 UTC 
attr: fix out-of-bounds read with unreasonable amount of patterns
 
The `struct attr_stack` tracks the stack of all patterns together with
their attributes. When parsing a gitattributes file that has more than
2^31 such patterns though we may trigger multiple out-of-bounds reads on
64 bit platforms. This is because while the `num_matches` variable is an
unsigned integer, we always use a signed integer to iterate over them.

I have not been able to reproduce this issue due to memory constraints
on my systems. But despite the out-of-bounds reads, the worst thing that
can seemingly happen is to call free(3P) with a garbage pointer when
calling `attr_stack_free()`.

Fix this bug by using unsigned integers to iterate over the array. While
this makes the iteration somewhat awkward when iterating in reverse, it
is at least better than knowingly running into an out-of-bounds read.
While at it, convert the call to `ALLOC_GROW` to use `ALLOC_GROW_BY`
instead.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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generate-cmdlist.sh 
#!/bin/sh

die () {
	echo "$@" >&2
	exit 1
}

command_list () {
	eval "grep -ve '^#' $exclude_programs" <"$1"
}

get_categories () {
	tr ' ' '\012'|
	grep -v '^$' |
	sort |
	uniq
}

category_list () {
	command_list "$1" |
	cut -c 40- |
	get_categories
}

get_synopsis () {
	sed -n '
		/^NAME/,/'"$1"'/H
		${
			x
			s/.*'"$1"' - \(.*\)/N_("\1")/
			p
		}' "Documentation/$1.txt"
}

define_categories () {
	echo
	echo "/* Command categories */"
	bit=0
	category_list "$1" |
	while read cat
	do
		echo "#define CAT_$cat (1UL << $bit)"
		bit=$(($bit+1))
	done
	test "$bit" -gt 32 && die "Urgh.. too many categories?"
}

define_category_names () {
	echo
	echo "/* Category names */"
	echo "static const char *category_names[] = {"
	bit=0
	category_list "$1" |
	while read cat
	do
		echo "	\"$cat\", /* (1UL << $bit) */"
		bit=$(($bit+1))
	done
	echo "	NULL"
	echo "};"
}

print_command_list () {
	echo "static struct cmdname_help command_list[] = {"

	command_list "$1" |
	while read cmd rest
	do
		printf "	{ \"$cmd\", $(get_synopsis $cmd), 0"
		for cat in $(echo "$rest" | get_categories)
		do
			printf " | CAT_$cat"
		done
		echo " },"
	done
	echo "};"
}

exclude_programs=
while test "--exclude-program" = "$1"
do
	shift
	exclude_programs="$exclude_programs -e \"^$1 \""
	shift
done

echo "/* Automatically generated by generate-cmdlist.sh */
struct cmdname_help {
	const char *name;
	const char *help;
	uint32_t category;
};
"
define_categories "$1"
echo
define_category_names "$1"
echo
print_command_list "$1"
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