[PATCH] vi: deal with invalid movements in shift commands

Ron Yorston rmy at pobox.com
Tue Mar 30 12:02:32 UTC 2021


Since commit 25d259264 (vi: make buffer handling more vi-like)
find_range() can return early when an invalid movement is
specified.

The call to find_range() in the code that handles shift commands
('<' and '>') doesn't check for this condition.  Previously this
only resulted in the current line being shifted but it can now
result in a segfault.

Check for an invalid movement and notify the user without taking
any further action.

function                                             old     new   delta
do_cmd                                              4890    4898      +8
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(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 8/0)                 Total: 8 bytes

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy at pobox.com>
---
 editors/vi.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/editors/vi.c b/editors/vi.c
index 4fa67a110..dd2e055d1 100644
--- a/editors/vi.c
+++ b/editors/vi.c
@@ -3574,7 +3574,10 @@ static void do_cmd(int c)
 	case '>':			// >- Right shift something
 		cnt = count_lines(text, dot);	// remember what line we are on
 		c1 = get_motion_char();	// get the type of thing to operate on
-		find_range(&p, &q, c1);
+		if (find_range(&p, &q, c1) == -1) {
+			indicate_error();
+			goto dc6;
+		}
 		yank_delete(p, q, WHOLE, YANKONLY, NO_UNDO);	// save copy before change
 		p = begin_line(p);
 		q = end_line(q);
-- 
2.30.2



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