PR/55979 CVS commit: [netbsd-9] src/bin/sh

["Martin Husemann" <martin%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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From: "Martin Husemann" <martin%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/55979 CVS commit: [netbsd-9] src/bin/sh
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:52:03 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	martin
 Date:		Tue Apr  6 17:52:03 UTC 2021
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/bin/sh [netbsd-9]: exec.c input.c
 
 Log Message:
 Pull up following revision(s) (requested by kre in ticket #1242):
 
 	bin/sh/input.c: revision 1.72
 	bin/sh/exec.c: revision 1.55
 
 PR bin/55979
 
 This fixes the MSAN detected reference to an unitialised variable
 (an unitialised field in a struct) which happens when a command is
 not found after a PATH search.
 Aside from skipping some known to be going to fail exec*() calls
 in some cases, the setting of the relevant field is irrelevant,
 so this problem makes no practical difference to the shell, or any
 shell script.
 
 XXX (maybe) pullup -9
 
 PR bin/55979
 
 Correctly handle (ie: ignore completely) \0 chars (nuls) in the
 shell command input stream (script, dot file, or stdin).
 Previously nul chars were ignored correctly in the line in which
 they occurred, but would cause trailing chars of that line to reappear
 as the start of the following line.   If there was just one \0 skipped,
 this would generally result in an extra \n in the sh input, which in
 most cases has no effect.   With multiple \0's in a single line, more
 of the end of that line was duplicated into the following one.  This
 usually manifested as a weird "command not found" error.
 
 Note that any \0 chars in the sh input make the script non-conforming,
 so fixing this is not crucial (no \0's should really ever be seen) but
 it was an obvious bug in the code, which was attempting to ignore nul
 chars (as do many other shells), so let it be fixed.
 
 XXX pullup -9
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.53.2.1 -r1.53.2.2 src/bin/sh/exec.c
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.71 -r1.71.2.1 src/bin/sh/input.c
 
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 copyright notices on the relevant files.