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Bug 1217084

Summary: pcretest with /(?<=\Ka)/g+ expression does not halt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Component: pcreAssignee: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 7.1Keywords: Patch
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Clone Of: 1210423 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-05-05 13:39:50 UTC Type: Bug
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Upstream fix ported to 8.33 applicable to 8.32 none

Description Petr Pisar 2015-04-29 14:06:04 UTC
Created attachment 1020204 [details]
Upstream fix ported to 8.33 applicable to 8.32

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1210423 +++

This command never halts:

$ echo -n a | pcregrep  '(?<=\Ka)'

Fixed with upstream commit:

commit b4332d7dd831b3547b3f541495de4a79554e538e
Author: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
Date:   Tue Apr 7 15:52:11 2015 +0000

    Fix pcregrep loop when \K is used in a lookbehind assertion.
    
    
    git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1543 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15

Similar bug is in pcretest:

$ printf '%s\n%s\n' '/(?<=\Ka)/g+' 'aaaaa' | pcretest

Fixed with upstream commitL

commit c3579a7581cb8b3ca3c9617d63083afea29de646
Author: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
Date:   Tue Apr 7 16:19:03 2015 +0000

    Fix pcretest loop for \K in lookbehind assertion.
    
    
    git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1544 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-
cb99058d5e15

All Fedoras are affected.

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pcre-8.32-14.el7.x86_64 is affected at pcretest only. The pcregrep looks fine.

I will patch only the pcretest. If somebody can reproduce the infinite loop in pcregrep tool, please speak.

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2015-05-05 13:39:50 UTC
Engineering management decided not fix this issue now.