[BUILTIN] Handle embedded NULs correctly in printf

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379227

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:48:38PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
> Package: dash
> Version: 0.5.3-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> hi
> 
> here are the examples
> 
> $ bash -c 'echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c'
> 0000000   A   B   C  \0   D  \0   E
> 0000007
> 
> $ /bin/echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c
> 0000000   A   B   C  \0   D  \0   E
> 0000007
> 
> $ zsh -c 'echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c'
> 0000000   A   B   C  \0   D  \0   E
> 0000007
> 
> $ dash -c 'echo -n  "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c'
> 0000000   A   B   C
> 0000003
> 
> and also
> 
> $ dash -c 'echo -n  "ABC\0DEFGH" | hexdump -c'
> 0000000   A   B   C
> 0000003
> 
> As you see, dash 's builtin echo truncates the output at the first \0
> 
> a.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages dash depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> 
> dash recommends no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * dash/sh: false
> 
> -- 
> Andrea Mennucc
>  "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)

This patch fixes handling of embedded NULs using an approach similar
to the one taken by NetBSD.  In particular, we first determine the
length of the output string, and then use a sequence of Xs of the
same length as input to the underlying C printf to determine the
amount of leading and trailing padding.  Finally we replace the
Xs with the actual string before writing it out.

In order to print out the temporary string containing Xs and padding,
a new helper xasprintf is added.  Unlike asprintf though, our
xasprintf prints to the ash stack rather than using straight malloc
memory.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 46ef4c2..379672f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2014-10-27  Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
 
 	* Add printf support for format string a, A, and F.
+	* Handle embedded NULs correctly in printf.
 
 2014-10-13  Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>