gitweb: Handle invalid regexp in regexp search

When using regexp search ('sr' parameter / $search_use_regexp variable
is true), check first that regexp is valid.

Without this patch we would get an error from Perl during search (if
searching is performed by gitweb), or highlighting matches substring
(if applicable), if user provided invalid regexp... which means broken
HTML, with error page (including HTTP headers) generated after gitweb
already produced some output.

Add test that illustrates such error: for example for regexp "*\.git"
we would get the following error:

  Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- HERE \.git/
  at /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi line 3084.

Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 50a835a5bf5c617bfc9d91259b54043b5f0a6920..7b9369811a37f55bb8843a90fde6fb795a6ae162 100755 (executable)
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1054,7 +1054,16 @@ sub evaluate_and_validate_params {
                if (length($searchtext) < 2) {
                        die_error(403, "At least two characters are required for search parameter");
                }
-               $search_regexp = $search_use_regexp ? $searchtext : quotemeta $searchtext;
+               if ($search_use_regexp) {
+                       $search_regexp = $searchtext;
+                       if (!eval { qr/$search_regexp/; 1; }) {
+                               (my $error = $@) =~ s/ at \S+ line \d+.*\n?//;
+                               die_error(400, "Invalid search regexp '$search_regexp'",
+                                         esc_html($error));
+                       }
+               } else {
+                       $search_regexp = quotemeta $searchtext;
+               }
        }
 }
 

diff --git a/t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh b/t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh
index 26102ee9b0c36a87ba17a75b0ca644cc42e2c1c4..31076edc5bd45261f5874b10dad6376e49fb9002 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh
+++ b/t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh
@@ -134,4 +134,14 @@ our $maxload = undef;
 EOF
 
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# invalid arguments
+
+test_expect_success 'invalid arguments: invalid regexp (in project search)' '
+       gitweb_run "a=project_list;s=*\.git;sr=1" &&
+       grep "Status: 400" gitweb.headers &&
+       grep "400 - Invalid.*regexp" gitweb.body
+'
+test_debug 'cat gitweb.headers'
+
 test_done