The signedness of char type is implementation dependent, and there are architectures on which it is unsigned by default. In that case, the check whether fgetc() returned EOF failed because the return value was assigned an (unsigned) char variable prior to comparison with EOF (which is defined to -1). Fix this by using int as type for 'c' variable, which also matches the declaration of fgetc().
While being at it, fix the parser logic to correctly handle multiple empty lines and consecutive whitespace and tab characters to further improve the parser's robustness. Note that this will still detect double separator characters, so doesn't soften up the parser too much. Fixes: 3da3ebfca85b8 ("bpf: Make bytecode-file reading a little more robust") Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> --- lib/bpf.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/bpf.c b/lib/bpf.c index 0bd0a95eafe6c..77eb8ee27114f 100644 --- a/lib/bpf.c +++ b/lib/bpf.c @@ -208,8 +208,9 @@ static int bpf_parse_string(char *arg, bool from_file, __u16 *bpf_len, if (from_file) { size_t tmp_len, op_len = sizeof("65535 255 255 4294967295,"); - char *tmp_string, *pos, c, c_prev = ' '; + char *tmp_string, *pos, c_prev = ' '; FILE *fp; + int c; tmp_len = sizeof("4096,") + BPF_MAXINSNS * op_len; tmp_string = pos = calloc(1, tmp_len); @@ -228,18 +229,20 @@ static int bpf_parse_string(char *arg, bool from_file, __u16 *bpf_len, case '\n': if (c_prev != ',') *(pos++) = ','; + c_prev = ','; break; case ' ': case '\t': if (c_prev != ' ') *(pos++) = c; + c_prev = ' '; break; default: *(pos++) = c; + c_prev = c; } if (pos - tmp_string == tmp_len) break; - c_prev = c; } if (!feof(fp)) { -- 2.13.1