From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] parser: Catch bogus case patterns
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:44:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abZHVeTi6SS6uIaR@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdNFasDNSdX+krLXYqUnx8O1HF8P77SLukKJRHfZMu5OUE-gg@mail.gmail.com>
Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> case $PATH in
> *$PWD*)
> echo \$PWD in \$PATH
> ;;
> ))
This is the cause of the issue in dash, an unexpected TRP token
causes an invalid word to be inserted into the case statement.
---8<---
If the token in a case statement pattern is not a TWORD, do not
insert it into the pattern list. Instead abort the parsing with
a syntax error.
Reported-by: Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/src/parser.c b/src/parser.c
index 5714958..bbee1e3 100644
--- a/src/parser.c
+++ b/src/parser.c
@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ next_case:
cp->type = NCLIST;
app = &cp->nclist.pattern;
for (;;) {
+ if (lasttoken != TWORD)
+ synexpect(TWORD);
*app = ap = (union node *)stalloc(sizeof (struct narg));
ap->type = NARG;
ap->narg.text = wordtext;
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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