mruby-regexp: raise RegexpError where a search gives up at a limit - #7280
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe regexp engine adds Unicode POSIX character-class metadata and distinct recursion and step-limit results. These results propagate through forward and reverse searches, raise ChangesRegexp limits and character classes
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RegexpAPI
participant RegexpEngine
participant ReverseSearch
participant LimitHandler
RegexpAPI->>RegexpEngine: Execute pattern search
RegexpEngine->>RegexpEngine: Track recursion and step limits
RegexpEngine->>ReverseSearch: Propagate limit result during reverse search
ReverseSearch->>LimitHandler: Return execution-limit result
LimitHandler->>RegexpAPI: Raise RegexpError or continue
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Back to draft: this conflicts with #7282 in a way
The merge is clean and the result compiles. What trips it is this PR's own tests: s = "b" + "a" * Regexp::RECURSION_LIMIT + "c"
s.sub(/(?:(?>a))*c/, "x") # bad free
s.gsub(/b|(?:(?>a))*c/, "x") # bad freeBuilt with
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#7282 is in, so this is the branch that lands second and carries the fix its comment above named: Rebased onto s = "b" + "a" * Regexp::RECURSION_LIMIT + "c"
s.sub(/(?:(?>a))*c/, "x") # RegexpError: recursion limit over (MRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT)
s.gsub(/b|(?:(?>a))*c/, "x") # RegexpError: recursion limit over (MRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT)
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19-24: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFix the two grammatical phrases in the new documentation.
Use complete wording for these statements:
- Replace “what CRuby's does” with “the same characters as CRuby”.
- Replace “rather than answer with what it had found by then” with “rather than returning the partial result”.
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- what CRuby's does where the build classifies characters by Unicode, and + the same characters as CRuby where the build classifies characters by Unicode, and - (MRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT), rather than answer with what it had found - by then. + (MRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT), rather than returning the partial result.Also applies to: 267-270
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In `@mrbgems/mruby-regexp/test/regexp_syntax.rb`:
- Around line 232-249: Make the limit-derived setup and assertions in the regexp
limit test safe across supported integer configurations: replace the shift-based
calculation of n with overflow-safe doubling while comparing against
Regexp::STEP_LIMIT, and guard the entire assertion block when
Regexp::RECURSION_LIMIT is below 4 so no derived strings or multipliers become
invalid. Preserve the existing checks for configurations where the limits are
sufficient.
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In `@mrbgems/mruby-regexp/README.md`:
- Around line 19-24: Update the mruby-regexp README documentation to replace
“what CRuby's does” with “the same characters as CRuby”, and replace “rather
than answer with what it had found by then” with “rather than returning the
partial result” in the corresponding documentation passage.
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`bt_match()` answers `BT_LIMIT` when a frame would pass
`MRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT` or the search has spent
`MRB_REGEXP_STEP_LIMIT` steps, and every frame above it read that as the
branch having failed: the six forks in `bt_match()` went on with their
other branch, and `backtrack_exec()` moved on to the next start
position. Nothing raised, so a search cut short reported a shorter
match, a later one or none, and the caller could not tell it from the
real answer:
```ruby
s = "a" * 2000
s.match(/(?:(?>a))*/)[0].size # CRuby: 2000, mruby: 332
s.match(/(?:(?=a)a)*/)[0].size # CRuby: 2000, mruby: 332
(s + "b").match(/(a)*?b/).begin(0) # CRuby: 0, mruby: 1502
s.match(/(?:(?>a))*\z/).begin(0) # CRuby: 0, mruby: 1668
"a".match(Regexp.new("(?=a)" * 500 + "a")) # CRuby: match, mruby: nil
("b" + s + "c").match(/b(?:(?>a))*c|a/).begin(0) # CRuby: 0, mruby: 1
("b" + s + "c").scan(/b|(?:(?>a))*c/).last.size # CRuby: 2001, mruby: 333
```
The limits stay: the recursion limit is what keeps a long subject off
the end of the C stack, and the step limit is the ReDoS guard. What
changes is what a limit means to the frames above it. A limit says
nothing about the text, so it is the search's answer and not a
branch's: every frame hands `BT_LIMIT` up unchanged, as it does a cut,
`backtrack_exec()` stops at the start position that answers it, and
`mrb_re_exec()` and `mrb_re_rexec()` answer `RE_OVER_RECURSION_LIMIT`
or `RE_OVER_STEP_LIMIT`, which limit it was being read off the step
count. The seven callers in `regexp.c` raise `RegexpError` on either
through one helper, which frees the caller's capture buffer first where
that buffer is on the heap, nothing after the raise being there to free
it, with a message that names the limit so that whoever hits one on a
legitimate subject knows which knob to turn, as CRuby raises
`RegexpError` (`match-stack limit over`) when Onigmo's match-stack
limit is set and reached.
`mrb_re_rexec()` stops at a limit in any of its three searches: a
window that gave up is not one with no match in it, and a walk that
gave up has no last match to answer with.
The values a build chose for the two limits are read back as
`Regexp::RECURSION_LIMIT` and `Regexp::STEP_LIMIT`, for a program that
has to size a subject or a pattern to the build it runs on, as
`Float::MANT_DIG` reads back `MRB_FLT_MANT_DIG`; CRuby has no
counterpart, its guard being `Regexp.timeout`. The tests size their
subjects from the two, so that a build setting either limit differently
runs them against its own.
This does not make the subjects above match; that takes the
per-iteration recursion off the C stack. A subject inside the limits
matches as before, and the six forks lose a comparison each.
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Answering the phrasing point of the review above, which had no line here to sit on.
This wording stays. "rather than answer with what it had found by then" is the sentence the whole change is about, and it is worded that way in the commit message and the pull request body too: what the search had when it gave up is not a partial answer to be returned or not, it is a shorter match, a later one or none, with nothing to tell it from the real one. "the partial result" names it as a result, which is what the change denies.
The other phrasing the review names, at lines 19 to 24, is not this PR's text.
mruby#7289 took every search's capture buffer from the stack, so the buffer re_check_over_limit() freed before raising no longer comes from the heap. The helper takes the limit alone now and frees nothing. Without this the merged tree compiles without a warning and aborts with "double free or corruption" the first time a search reaches a limit. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bt_match()answersBT_LIMITwhen a frame would passMRB_REGEXP_RECURSION_LIMIT(1,000) or the search has spent
MRB_REGEXP_STEP_LIMIT(1,000,000) steps, andeverything above it reads that as the branch having failed: the six forks in
bt_match()go on with their other branch, andbacktrack_exec()moves on to thenext start position. Nothing raises, so a search that was cut short reports a
shorter match, a later one or none, and the caller cannot tell it from the real
answer:
The limits themselves stay: the recursion limit is what keeps a long subject off
the end of the C stack, and the step limit is the ReDoS guard. What is wrong is
what a limit means to the frames above it. #7256 settled that a limit is not a
cut and not a lookaround's answer, and left it as "the frame gives up and its
caller tries the next branch", which is what turns a limit into a partial answer.
The fix
A limit says nothing about the text, so it is the search's answer and not a
branch's:
BT_LIMITup unchanged, as it does a cut, so no frameanswers with its other branch after one below it gave up (the six forks lose
a comparison each);
backtrack_exec()stops at the start position that answers it, the positionsafter it saying where the first match is only once this one has none;
mrb_re_exec()andmrb_re_rexec()answerRE_OVER_RECURSION_LIMITorRE_OVER_STEP_LIMIT, which limit it was being read off the step count;mrb_re_rexec()stops at a limit in any of its three searches, since a windowthat gave up is not one with no match in it, and a walk that gave up has no
last match to answer with;
regexp.craiseRegexpErroron either through onehelper, which frees the caller's capture buffer first where that buffer is on
the heap, nothing after the raise being there to free it, and takes
NULLfrom the four holding theirs on the stack or holding none. The message names
the limit, so that whoever hits one on a legitimate subject knows which knob
to turn:
CRuby's own guards answer the same way:
Regexp.timeoutraisesRegexp::TimeoutError, and Onigmo's match-stack limit, where set, raisesRegexpError(match-stack limit over), rather than answer with what thesearch had by then.
The values a build chose for the two limits are read back as
Regexp::RECURSION_LIMITandRegexp::STEP_LIMIT, for a program that has tosize a subject or a pattern to the build it runs on, as
Float::MANT_DIGreadsback
MRB_FLT_MANT_DIG; CRuby has no counterpart, its guard beingRegexp.timeout. The tests size their subjects from the two.This does not make the subjects above match; that takes the per-iteration
recursion off the C stack, and once this is in, that change's effect is
measurable as raises that become matches. The README names both limits, the
two constants and what reaching a limit does.
Size
.textofbin/mruby,build_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb, each side from a cleanbuild directory at the same path. Two objects change:
re_exec.ofor the stopin
backtrack_exec()and the three checks inmrb_re_rexec()(+32 inbintest, the six comparisons it loses paying for most of those), andregexp.ofor the helper with its seven calls and the two constants (+160 inbintest).bintestascii-ctypebyte-stringcxx_abifull-debug(-O0)Verification
The tests go in three files by subject, and size their subjects from the two
constants: a repetition of an atomic group or a lookaround spends two or three
frames per iteration, so a run as long as
RECURSION_LIMITis past the limitand a quarter of it inside;
(a+)+\1bspends about 2^n steps on a run of n,so a run of
log2(STEP_LIMIT) + 10is past the step limit.regexp_syntax.rb,beside the empty-iteration tests: the subjects above raise, the same patterns
match whole inside the limits, each message names its limit, a limit at the
first start position is not answered by the second, and
match?and===raise the same.
string_regexp.rb:sub,gsub(with and without a block),scanandsplitraise from the middle of a subject rather than return whatthey had, the block having run once.
string_index.rb:rindexraises fromeach of the three searches of
mrb_re_rexec()on a subject CRuby answers andmaster answers wrongly, and answers from each inside the limits; the atomic
group there is nested as deep as the limit asks, so that the run fits the 256
bytes the window reads. On master every
assert_raisein the three blocksfails, and the
rindexwalk case loops without the check in the walk. Thesuite is also green on two builds with other limits,
RECURSION_LIMIT=3000with
STEP_LIMIT=100000andRECURSION_LIMIT=500withSTEP_LIMIT=20000000.Differential against CRuby 4.0.6, the harness of #7269 and #7273 with
master and this PR against the same cases: 10,000 random patterns (seed 2, the
default features, over
aandb), each matched against one subject andcompared as
MatchData#to_a. 9,967 answer the same everywhere. 27 differ fromCRuby on master and on this PR alike, the standing differences of the engine.
4 raise the step limit on this PR where master answered
nil, as CRuby does:each is a pattern of nested empty-matching repetitions and backreferences over
a subject of two to four bytes, where master read the limit as no match at that
start position and went on to answer
nilfor the rest. CRuby cannot finish 2under its timeout and memory cap; both sides answer those
nilon master andhere.
rake test,build_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb, no compiler warning:full-debugbintestbintest(bintest suite)cxx_abibyte-stringascii-ctypeThe default configuration: 2,162 total, 0 KO, 0 crash, plus its 112 bintests.
build_config/gcc-asan.rb, which the twosubandgsubcall sites answer tosince #7282 stands their capture buffers on the stack: 2,391 total, 0 KO,
0 crash, no sanitizer report.
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Regexp::RECURSION_LIMITandRegexp::STEP_LIMIT.RegexpErrorwith a specific message.Bug Fixes
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