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patch around get_suffix

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From: John SETH Thielemann <sthielemann <at> jostaly.com>
To: 72682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72682: patch around get_suffix
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 03:48:53 +0000

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To whom it may concern;

 Spent some time chasing a red herring around the'get_suffix' function. 
The patch included aims to simplify the logic considerably.

There are a number of interesting points to note:

  Under normal situations (".gz") (could be modified by using -S) the 
predicate:
<code>
        if (z_len < suflen && strequ (z_suffix, *suf + suflen - z_len))
</code>

  Will never be true. Modifications to the suffix string, possibly at 
build time,
or on the command line will trigger the boolean to get set, executing:
<code>
    known_suffixes[suffix_of_builtin
                   ? sizeof known_suffixes / sizeof *known_suffixes - 2
                   : 0] = z_lower;
</code>

  This will drop the duplicated pointer into the next-to-last element of 
the array,
rather than the front. The const qualifier on  known_suffixes on reading 
that it is const but this is not the case.

   strlen is a size_t, there may potentially be sign extension issues. 
It could be possible to craft a pointer as an argument to a mapped 
memory region if it was large enough to trigger a sign extension error, 
however it's extremely unlikely.

Take care,
John SETH Thielemann
JOSTALY Technologies
https://www.jostaly.com
223-231-3511

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