CAtlRegExp bug with Visual Studio 2005 SP1

From:
 "Roman Ryl..." <ryltsov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:50:05 -0000
Message-ID:
<1190584205.761103.18210@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

I have recently encountered another bug with ATL's regular expression
class, Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Match method jumps beyond of the
argument string what can end up with access violation etc.

This is the code to reproduce the problem:

===
    CAtlRegExp<CAtlRECharTraitsA> Expression;
    ATLVERIFY(Expression.Parse(" *{[^ \\=\\,]+ *}( *\\= *(({[^ \\,\\\"]
+?})|(\\\"{[^\\\"]+?}\\\")) *)?(\\, *)?", FALSE) == REPARSE_ERROR_OK);
    static CHAR g_pszValue[] = "realm=\"Session streamed by RTP/RTSP
server\", nonce=\"c26b8dbee7f21b41de1f7ef9a56d5695\"";
    for(LPCSTR pszPointer = g_pszValue; ; )
    {
        CAtlREMatchContext<CAtlRECharTraitsA> MatchContext;
        LPCSTR pszNewPointer;
        if(!Expression.Match(pszPointer, &MatchContext, &pszNewPointer))
            break;
        ATLASSERT(pszNewPointer <= g_pszValue + strlen(g_pszValue) + 1);
        pszPointer = pszNewPointer;
    }
===

The code stops at ATLASSERT.

And this is what I believe to be a fix for the problem (atlrx.h):

===
            case RE_ADVANCE:

                // FIX: Roman's fix for !*szCurrInput bug
#if TRUE
                if(*szCurrInput == '\0')
                    goto Error;
#endif

                sz = CharTraits::Next(szCurrInput);
                szCurrInput = sz;
                if (*sz == '\0')
                    goto Error;
                ip = 0;
                pContext->m_nTos = 0;
                break;
===

I hope this information is useful.

Roman

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