Every version of patch since the first one posted to mod.sources in 1985 have
included a heuristic for coping with the state of email messaging at the
time. This heuristic would add up to 4 blank lines to a patch if it thought it
needed it. The trouble is, though this causes at least one bug.
The bug in my case is that if you have a context diff whose last hunk only
deletes 3 or fewer lines, then if you try to reverse apply it with -R, it will
fail. The reason for this is the heuristic builds an internal representation
that includes those blank lines. However, it should really replicate the lines
from the pattern lines line it would any other time, not assume they are blank
lines. Removing this heuristic will prevent patch from misapplying the lines
removed after applying a 'fuzz' factor to the previous blank line in the file. I
believe this will only affect 'new-style' 4.3BSD context diffs and not the
older-style 4.2BSD diffs and plain, non-context diffs. It won't affect any of
the newer formats, since they don't use the 'omitted' construct in the same way.
Since this heuristic was put into patch at a time when email / etc ate trailing
white space on a regular basis, and since it's clear that this heuristic is the
wrong thing to do at least some of the time, it's better to remove it
entirely. It's not been needed for maybe 20 years since patch files are not
usually corrupted. If there are a small number of patch files that would benefit
from this corruption fixing, those already-currupt patches can be fixed by the
addition of blank lines. I'd wager that no one will ever come to me with an
example of a once-working patch file that breaks with this change. However, I
have 2 patches from the first 195 patches to 2.11BSD that are affected by this
bug, suggesting that the relative frequency of the issue has changed
signficantly since the original heuristic was put into place.
Reviewed by: phk@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26081
We have a bad habit of duplicating contents of files that are sourced from
/dev/null and applied more than once... take the more sane (in most ways)
GNU route and complain if the file exists and offer reversal options.
This still falls short a little bit as selecting "don't reverse, apply
anyway" will still give you duplicated file contents. There's probably other
issues as well, but awareness is the first step to happiness.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21535
This change is made in the name of GNU patch compatibility. If GNU patch is
fed a zero-length patch, it will exit successfully with no output. This is
used in at least one port to date (comms/wsjtx), and we break on this usage.
It seems unlikely that anyone relies on patch(1) calling their completely
empty patch garbage and failing, and GNU compatibility is a plus if it helps
with porting, so make the switch.
Reported by: db
MFC after: 2 weeks
Fix adding and removing files with git-style a/ b/ diffs: only skip
six letters if they actually match "--- a/" and "+++ b/" instead of
laxer checks.
Obtained from: OpenBSD (CVS 1.59)
Patches like file.txt attached to PR 190195 with a final line formed
like ">(EOL)" could cause a copy past the end of the current line buffer. In the
case of PR 191641, this caused a duplicate line to be copied into the resulting
file.
Instead of running past the end, treat it as if it were a blank line.
PR: 191641
Reviewed by: cem, emaste, pfg
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12609
tightening sanity check of the input. [1]
While I'm there also replace ed(1) with red(1) because we do
not need the unrestricted functionality. [2]
Obtained from: Bitrig [1], DragonFly [2]
Security: CVE-2015-1418 [1]
The function savestr allows NULL return values during Plan A patching so in
case of out of memory conditions, Plan B can step in. In many cases, NULL
value is not properly handled, so use xstrdup here (it's outside Plan A/B
patching, which means that even Plan B relies on successful operations).
Clean up some whitespaces while here
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
Introduce strtolinenum to properly check line numbers while parsing:
no signs, no spaces, just digits, 0 <= x <= LONG_MAX
Properly validate line ranges supplied in diff file to prevent overflows.
Also fixes an out of boundary memory access because the resulting values
are used as array indices.
PR: 195436
Obtained from: OpenBSD (CVS pch.c rev 1.45, 1,46, common.h rev 1.28)
MFC after: 1 week
Check fstat return value. Also, use off_t for file size and offsets.
Avoid iterating over end of string.
Obtained from: OpenBSD (CVS rev. 1.41, 1.43)
MFC after: 1 week
Patch(1) uses a short int for the line length, which is usually
sufficient for regular diffs, but makes no effort to signal
when there is an overflow.
Change the line length to an unsigned short int to better use
the fact that a length is never negative. The change is loosely
inspired on a related change in DragonFly, but we avoid spending
more memory than necessary.
While here adjust the messages to be clearer on what is happening.
MFC after: 1 week
This change reverts a change from OpenBSD which made use of
calloc, and therefore wasted time initializing arrays that
will later be realloc'ed. Consistently use FreeBSD's
reallocf().
While here also merge the changes from OpenBSD's manpage
patch.1 Rev 1.27:
"patch was moved from user portability (UP) to base in issue 7
and is no longer optional"
MFC after: 1 week
Properly handle input lines containing NUL characters such that pgets()
accurately fills the read buffer.
Callers of pgets() still mis-process the buffer contents if the read line
contains NUL characters, but this at least makes pgets() accurate.
Make it so that 'patch < FUBAR' and 'patch -i FUBAR' operate the same.
The former makes a copy of stdin, but was not accurately putting the
content of stdin into a temp file. This lead to the undercounting
the number of lines in hunks containing NUL characters when reading
from stdin. Thus resulting in "unexpected end of file in patch" errors.
Instead of using the file with the least order of path name components,
shortest filename and finally the shortest basename (with the search
stopping as soon as one of these conditions is true), the first filename
checked was used as the reference, and another filename was only selected
if all of the above comparisons are in favour of the latter file.
This was wrong, because filenames with path less components were only
considered, if both of the other conditions were true as well. In fact,
the first filename to be checked had good chances to be selected in the
end, since it only needed to be better with regard to any one of the
three criteria ...
Reviewed by: delphij@freebsd.org
- Remove $DragonFly$ tags as they are using git nowadays and VCS tags will
not help merging.
- Other changes to Copyright headers to make them consistent with other
source code, we intend to fork from this point.
Reviewed by: pfg
DragonflyBSD and install it as bsdpatch. WITH_BSD_PATCH makes it
default and installs GNU patch as gnupatch.
Submitted by: pfg
Obtained from: The DragonflyBSD Project
