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regexp: crash on illegal expression #9965

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robpike opened this issue Feb 23, 2015 · 4 comments
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regexp: crash on illegal expression #9965

robpike opened this issue Feb 23, 2015 · 4 comments
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robpike commented Feb 23, 2015

from stack overflow.

http://play.golang.org/p/ZGO_inicCG

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
)

func main() {
    r, _ := regexp.Compile("* * *")
    r2 := r.ReplaceAll([]byte("* * *"), []byte("<hr>"))
    fmt.Println(r2)
}


panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0xffffffff addr=0x0 pc=0x8c0c2]

goroutine 1 [running]:
regexp.(*Regexp).get(0x0, 0x512a, 0x104400f0, 0x178c0e)
    /usr/src/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:192 +0x1e2
regexp.(*Regexp).doExecute(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x10436190, 0x5, 0x8, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x2, ...)
    /usr/src/go/src/regexp/exec.go:423 +0x80
regexp.(*Regexp).replaceAll(0x0, 0x10436190, 0x5, 0x8, 0x0, 0x0, 0x2, 0x1041971c, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
    /usr/src/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:486 +0x120
regexp.(*Regexp).ReplaceAll(0x0, 0x10436190, 0x5, 0x8, 0x10436198, 0x4, 0x8, 0x512a, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
    /usr/src/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:549 +0x140
main.main()
    /tmp/sandbox739482667/main.go:10 +0x160
@robpike robpike added this to the Go1.5 milestone Feb 23, 2015
@bradfitz
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What's the bug? It should crash earlier? r is nil.

@randall77
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The ignored error is:
error parsing regexp: missing argument to repetition operator: *

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <notifications@github.com

wrote:

What's the bug? It should crash earlier? r is nil.


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robpike commented Feb 24, 2015

Sorry for the noise.

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