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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2024-08-13 21:00:06 -0400
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2024-08-15 13:55:07 -0400
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ungetc: Fix uninitialized read when putting into unused streams [BZ #27821]
When ungetc is called on an unused stream, the backup buffer is allocated without the main get area being present. This results in every subsequent ungetc (as the stream remains in the backup area) checking uninitialized memory in the backup buffer when trying to put a character back into the stream. Avoid comparing the input character with buffer contents when in backup to avoid this uninitialized read. The uninitialized read is harmless in this context since the location is promptly overwritten with the input character, thus fulfilling ungetc functionality. Also adjust wording in the manual to drop the paragraph that says glibc cannot do multiple ungetc back to back since with this change, ungetc can actually do this. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--libio/genops.c2
-rw-r--r--manual/stdio.texi8
-rw-r--r--stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libio/genops.c b/libio/genops.c
index 99f5e80..b012fa3 100644
--- a/libio/genops.c
+++ b/libio/genops.c
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ _IO_sputbackc (FILE *fp, int c)
{
int result;
- if (fp->_IO_read_ptr > fp->_IO_read_base
+ if (fp->_IO_read_ptr > fp->_IO_read_base && !_IO_in_backup (fp)
&& (unsigned char)fp->_IO_read_ptr[-1] == (unsigned char)c)
{
fp->_IO_read_ptr--;
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index 0db4e09..29888a3 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -1467,11 +1467,9 @@ program; usually @code{ungetc} is used only to unread a character that
was just read from the same stream. @Theglibc{} supports this
even on files opened in binary mode, but other systems might not.
-@Theglibc{} only supports one character of pushback---in other
-words, it does not work to call @code{ungetc} twice without doing input
-in between. Other systems might let you push back multiple characters;
-then reading from the stream retrieves the characters in the reverse
-order that they were pushed.
+@Theglibc{} supports pushing back multiple characters; subsequently
+reading from the stream retrieves the characters in the reverse order
+that they were pushed.
Pushing back characters doesn't alter the file; only the internal
buffering for the stream is affected. If a file positioning function
diff --git a/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c b/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
index 5c808f0..388b202 100644
--- a/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
+++ b/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ do_test (void)
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'b');
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'l');
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ungetc ('m', fp) == 'm');
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ungetc ('n', fp) == 'n');
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'n');
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'm');
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT ((c = getc (fp)) == 'a');
TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == EOF);