[apparmor] [patch] parser: fix uninitialized field in convert_aaregex_to_pcre() [resend]

Seth Arnold seth.arnold at canonical.com
Mon Jan 25 20:07:13 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:47:09AM -0800, Steve Beattie wrote:
> This is an unchanged resend of the patch from this thread:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/apparmor/2015-August/008494.html
> 
> The first entry in the grouping_count array is never initialized to 0;
> subsequent depths are. This patch fixes the issue.
> 
> [parser-fix_uninitialized_grouping_value.patch]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Beattie <steve at nxnw.org>

Acked-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>

(slighly suggested to memset the whole thing to zero, or maybe assign the
whole thing to zero:  int grouping_count[MAX_ALT_DEPTH] = {0}; -- but
this alone is better than current. :)

Thanks

> ---
>  parser/parser_regex.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: b/parser/parser_regex.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/parser/parser_regex.c
> +++ b/parser/parser_regex.c
> @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ pattern_t convert_aaregex_to_pcre(const
>  	int ingrouping = 0;	/* flag to indicate {} context */
>  	int incharclass = 0;	/* flag to indicate [ ] context */
>  	int grouping_count[MAX_ALT_DEPTH];
> +	grouping_count[ingrouping] = 0;
>  
>  	error = e_no_error;
>  	ptype = ePatternBasic;	/* assume no regex */
> 
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