slre: drop wrong "anchored" optimization

The regex '^a|b' means "does the string start with a, or does it have
a b anywhere", not "does the string start with a or b" (the latter
should be spelled '^[ab]' or '^(a|b)'). It should match exactly the
same strings as 'b|^a'. But the current implementation hard-codes an
assumption that when the regex starts with a ^, the whole regex must
match from the beginning, i.e. it only attempts at offset 0.

It really should be completely symmetrical to 'b|c$' ("does it have a
b anywhere or end with c?"), which is treated correctly.

Another quirk is that currently the regex 'x*$', which should match
all strings (because it just means "does the string end
with 0 or more x'es"), does not, because in the unanchored case we
never attempt to match at ofs==len. In the anchored case, '^x*$', this
works correctly and matches exactly strings (including the empty
string) consisting entirely of x'es.

Fix both of these issues by dropping all use of the slre->anchored
member and always test at all possible offsets. If the regex does have
a ^ somewhere (including after a | branch character), that is
correctly handled by the match engine by only matching when *ofs is 0.

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <ravi@prevas.dk>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/include/slre.h b/include/slre.h
index 4b41a4b276f..af5b1302d9c 100644
--- a/include/slre.h
+++ b/include/slre.h
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ struct slre {
 	int		code_size;
 	int		data_size;
 	int		num_caps;	/* Number of bracket pairs	*/
-	int		anchored;	/* Must match from string start	*/
 	const char	*err_str;	/* Error string			*/
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/slre.c b/lib/slre.c
index 277a59a03a7..4f455400d3a 100644
--- a/lib/slre.c
+++ b/lib/slre.c
@@ -413,10 +413,7 @@ int
 slre_compile(struct slre *r, const char *re)
 {
 	r->err_str = NULL;
-	r->code_size = r->data_size = r->num_caps = r->anchored = 0;
-
-	if (*re == '^')
-		r->anchored++;
+	r->code_size = r->data_size = r->num_caps = 0;
 
 	emit(r, OPEN);	/* This will capture what matches full RE */
 	emit(r, 0);
@@ -650,13 +647,9 @@ slre_match(const struct slre *r, const char *buf, int len,
 {
 	int	i, ofs = 0, res = 0;
 
-	if (r->anchored) {
+	for (i = 0; i <= len && res == 0; i++) {
+		ofs = i;
 		res = match(r, 0, buf, len, &ofs, caps);
-	} else {
-		for (i = 0; i < len && res == 0; i++) {
-			ofs = i;
-			res = match(r, 0, buf, len, &ofs, caps);
-		}
 	}
 
 	return res;