Thread (38 messages) flat view 38 messages, 3 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 3/7] Extract, test and enhance the logic to collapse ../foo paths.

From: Eric Wong <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:23

"Michael G. Schwern" [off-list ref] wrote:
From: "Michael G. Schwern" <redacted>

The SVN API functions will not accept ../foo but their canonicalization
functions will not collapse it.  So we'll have to do it ourselves.

_collapse_dotdot() works better than the existing regex did.
I don't dispute it's better, but it's worth explaining in the commit
message to reviewers why something is "better".
This will be used shortly when canonicalize_path() starts using the
SVN API.
---
+# Turn foo/../bar into bar
+sub _collapse_dotdot {
+	my $path = shift;
+
+	1 while $path =~ s{/[^/]+/+\.\.}{};
+	1 while $path =~ s{[^/]+/+\.\./}{};
+	1 while $path =~ s{[^/]+/+\.\.}{};
This is a bug that's gone unnoticed[1] for over 5 years now,
but I've just noticed this doesn' handle "foo/..bar"  or "foo/...bar"
cases correctly.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 sub canonicalize_path {
 	my ($path) = @_;
 	my $dot_slash_added = 0;
@@ -83,7 +95,7 @@ sub canonicalize_path {
 	# good reason), so let's do this manually.
 	$path =~ s#/+#/#g;
 	$path =~ s#/\.(?:/|$)#/#g;
-	$path =~ s#/[^/]+/\.\.##g;
+	$path = _collapse_dotdot($path);
[1] - I doubt anybody uses paths like these, though...
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