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From: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] lib/glob: treat trailing backslash as literal character
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:10:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260315171104.268944-3-objecting@objecting.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260315171104.268944-1-objecting@objecting.org>

A pattern ending with a lone backslash (e.g., "path\\") reads the
NUL terminator as the escaped character, making the backslash
effectively match end-of-string rather than a literal '\' character.
This means glob_match("path\\", "path\\") would fail since the
pattern consumes the NUL early, while glob_match("path\\", "path")
would unexpectedly succeed.

Guard the escape so that a trailing backslash keeps d = '\\' and
falls through to literal matching, which is the intuitive behavior:
a trailing backslash matches a literal backslash character.

Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
---
 lib/glob.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/glob.c b/lib/glob.c
index cb45a9a47f28..df7f00619b1b 100644
--- a/lib/glob.c
+++ b/lib/glob.c
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
 			}
 			break;
 		case '\\':
-			d = *pat++;
+			if (*pat != '\0')
+				d = *pat++;
 			fallthrough;
 		default:	/* Literal character */
 literal:
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-15 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-15 17:10 [PATCH 0/7] lib/glob: fixes, new features, and test coverage Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:10 ` [PATCH 1/7] lib/glob: normalize inverted character class ranges Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:10 ` Josh Law [this message]
2026-03-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 3/7] lib/glob: accept [^...] as character class negation syntax Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] lib/glob: add case-insensitive glob_match_nocase() Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] lib/glob: add glob_validate() for pattern syntax checking Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 6/7] lib/tests: add glob test cases for escapes, edge cases, and new features Josh Law
2026-03-15 17:11 ` [PATCH 7/7] lib/tests: add kunit tests for glob_match_nocase() and glob_validate() Josh Law

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