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[PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Protect escaping functions against calling on undef

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2010, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20100207205130.11146.30664.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To
<20100207204539.11146.36972.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

This is a bit of future-proofing esc_html and friends: when called with undefined value they would now would return undef... which would probably mean that error would still occur, but closer to the source of problem.

This means that we can safely use
  esc_html(shift) || "Internal Server Error"
in die_error() instead of
  esc_html(shift || "Internal Server Error")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
Without the second part (i.e. the change in die_error) those two
patches would be totally independent.
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index e393f65..c10967c 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1145,6 +1145,7 @@ sub validate_refname {
 # in utf-8 thanks to "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'" at beginning
 sub to_utf8 {
 	my $str = shift;
+	return undef unless defined $str;
 	if (utf8::valid($str)) {
 		utf8::decode($str);
 		return $str;
@@ -1157,6 +1158,7 @@ sub to_utf8 {
 # correct, but quoted slashes look too horrible in bookmarks
 sub esc_param {
 	my $str = shift;
+	return undef unless defined $str;
 	$str =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~()\/:@ ]+)/CGI::escape($1)/eg;
 	$str =~ s/ /\+/g;
 	return $str;
@@ -1165,6 +1167,7 @@ sub esc_param {
 # quote unsafe chars in whole URL, so some charactrs cannot be quoted
 sub esc_url {
 	my $str = shift;
+	return undef unless defined $str;
 	$str =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~();\/;?:@&=])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/eg;
 	$str =~ s/\+/%2B/g;
 	$str =~ s/ /\+/g;
@@ -1176,6 +1179,8 @@ sub esc_html {
 	my $str = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 
+	return undef unless defined $str;
+
 	$str = to_utf8($str);
 	$str = $cgi->escapeHTML($str);
 	if ($opts{'-nbsp'}) {
@@ -1190,6 +1195,8 @@ sub esc_path {
 	my $str = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 
+	return undef unless defined $str;
+
 	$str = to_utf8($str);
 	$str = $cgi->escapeHTML($str);
 	if ($opts{'-nbsp'}) {
@@ -3389,7 +3396,7 @@ sub git_footer_html {
 #      or down for maintenance).  Generally, this is a temporary state.
 sub die_error {
 	my $status = shift || 500;
-	my $error = esc_html(shift || "Internal Server Error");
+	my $error = esc_html(shift) || "Internal Server Error";
 	my $extra = shift;
 
 	my %http_responses = (
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