[PATCH] sed: Fix backslash parsing for 'w' command arg

Brian Foley bpfoley at google.com
Wed Jan 2 21:09:45 UTC 2019


If there's any whitespace between w and the filename, parse_file_cmd
writes to the wrong offset when trying to fix up backslashes.

This can be seen in the asan build with busybox sed -e 'w 0\\'

Signed-off-by: Brian Foley <bpfoley at google.com>
---
 editors/sed.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 1054c1302..cddb0c732 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ static int parse_file_cmd(/*sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd,*/ const char *filecmdstr, char *
 		bb_error_msg_and_die("empty filename");
 	*retval = xstrndup(filecmdstr+start, idx-start+hack+1);
 	if (hack)
-		(*retval)[idx] = '\\';
+		(*retval)[idx-start] = '\\';
 
 	return idx;
 }
-- 
2.17.1


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