If the supplied pattern matches the empty string at the start of a line,
then 'grep -o' would loop forever.

Originally reported as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/+bug/619817.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
---
 findutils/grep.c     |   20 +++++++++++++-------
 testsuite/grep.tests |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index 688ea6a..7545ade 100644
--- a/findutils/grep.c
+++ b/findutils/grep.c
@@ -463,13 +463,19 @@ static int grep_file(FILE *file)
                                        } else while (1) {
                                                unsigned end = 
gl->matched_range.rm_eo;
                                                char old = line[end];
-                                               line[end] = '\0';
-                                               print_line(line + 
gl->matched_range.rm_so,
-                                                               end - 
gl->matched_range.rm_so,
-                                                               linenum, ':');
-                                               if (old == '\0')
-                                                       break;
-                                               line[end] = old;
+                                               if (gl->matched_range.rm_so == 
gl->matched_range.rm_eo) {
+                                                       end++;
+                                                       if (line[end] == '\0')
+                                                               break;
+                                               } else {
+                                                       line[end] = '\0';
+                                                       print_line(line + 
gl->matched_range.rm_so,
+                                                                       end - 
gl->matched_range.rm_so,
+                                                                       
linenum, ':');
+                                                       if (old == '\0')
+                                                               break;
+                                                       line[end] = old;
+                                               }
 #if !ENABLE_EXTRA_COMPAT
                                                if 
(regexec(&gl->compiled_regex, line + end,
                                                                1, 
&gl->matched_range, REG_NOTBOL) != 0)
diff --git a/testsuite/grep.tests b/testsuite/grep.tests
index 520a184..ad99257 100755
--- a/testsuite/grep.tests
+++ b/testsuite/grep.tests
@@ -98,5 +98,9 @@ testing "grep -o does not loop forever" \
        'grep -o "[^/]*$"' \
        "test\n" \
        "" "/var/test\n"
+testing "grep -o does not loop forever on zero-length match at ^" \
+       'grep -o "" | head -n1' \
+       "" \
+       "" "test\n"
 
 exit $FAILCOUNT
-- 
1.7.1
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