gnu/105221: grep(1): `grep -w -F ""` issue

[Dorr H. Clark]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/105221; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark at engr.scu.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org, martinko <gamato at users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: gnu/105221: grep(1): `grep -w -F ""` issue
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:53:08 -0700 (PDT)

   gnu/105221
 
 The behavior described in 105221 is due to 'grep' looping 
 infinitely within Fexecute() of revision 1.25 of search.c. 
 
 When used with the combination of '-w' and '-F' and 
 the empty string, 'grep' enters a inescapable "while(1)" block 
 
 A proposed fix then, is to immediately fail the search for a match 
 when grep is called with this combination of options if the
 string to match is zero-length (and thus, trivially does not match
 the non-empty input!).
 
 David K Lam
 Engineer
 
 Dorr H. Clark
 Advisor
 
 Graduate School of Engineering
 Santa Clara University
 Santa Clara, CA
 
 http://www.cse.scu.edu/~dclark/coen_284_FreeBSD/105221.txt
 
 --- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/grep/search.c	2006-02-19 04:27:39.000000000 +0000
 +++ search.c	2008-08-21 00:29:38.000000000 +0000
 @@ -959,6 +959,10 @@
  	}
        else if (match_words)
  	{
 +
 +          if(beg[len-1] == eol)
 +            break;
 +
  	  while (1)
  	    {
  	      int word_match = 0;