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parser: Fix parsing of ${}

Message ID 20180402164025.GA715@gondor.apana.org.au (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Commit Message

Herbert Xu April 2, 2018, 4:40 p.m. UTC 
dash -c 'echo ${}' should print "Bad subtitution" but instead
fails with "Syntax error: Missing '}'".  This is caused by us
reading an extra character beyond the right brace.  This patch
fixes it so that this construct only fails during expansion rather
than during parsing.

Fixes: 3df3edd13389 ("[PARSER] Report substition errors at...")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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diff --git a/src/parser.c b/src/parser.c
index 6a8a4a4..efa8060 100644
--- a/src/parser.c
+++ b/src/parser.c
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@  varname:
 				STPUTC(c, out);
 				c = pgetc_eatbnl();
 			} while (is_digit(c));
-		} else {
+		} else if (c != '}') {
 			int cc = c;
 
 			c = pgetc_eatbnl();
@@ -1290,7 +1290,8 @@  varname:
 			}
 
 			USTPUTC(cc, out);
-		}
+		} else
+			goto badsub;
 
 		if (subtype == 0) {
 			int cc = c;