From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] expand: Use memmove when copying multi-byte chars in rmescapes
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:45:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abap1Nxtvh2bkoNM@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdNFauVF91SguPkBT7FUPuKLBbwTod=EeLAibqosujYRv01BQ@mail.gmail.com>
Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Dash maintainers,
>
> I encountered a bug in Dash 0.5.13 and would like to report
> it. The behaviour is the same for ASAN error in Dash 0.5.12 and I
> reported it here (https://www.spinics.net/lists/dash/msg02856.html).
> So steps to reproduce are similarly for 0.5.12 and 0.5.13. The ASAN
> errors have some differences but the problem may be the same. The
> details are provided below.
>
> ==4385==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: memcpy-param-overlap: memory ranges
> [0x5e9360717719,0x5e936071771c) and [0x5e936071771b, 0x5e936071771e)
> overlap
> #0 0x5e935fced469 in __asan_memcpy
> (/upstream/z/dash-0.5.13/src/dash+0xd6469) (BuildId:
> e987025fc7a0e719d6f6413a475e27117a9dee0e)
> #1 0x5e935fd40db9 in _rmescapes /upstream/z/dash-0.5.13/src/expand.c:2129:8
Thanks for the report. I'll change the memcpy to memmove.
---8<---
Use memmove instead of mempcpy in rmescapes as the two regions
can indeed overlap when escaps are removed in place.
Fixes: 990bbd15346d ("expand: Process multi-byte characters in subevalvar")
Reported-by: Aleksander Ushakov <retes672@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/src/expand.c b/src/expand.c
index eed8150..bbf8454 100644
--- a/src/expand.c
+++ b/src/expand.c
@@ -2128,7 +2128,8 @@ _rmescapes(char *str, int flag)
tail = 0;
}
- q = mempcpy(q, p, ml);
+ memmove(q, p, ml);
+ q += ml;
p += ml + tail;
goto setnesc;
}
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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