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Improve worst-case performance of inline.text regex #1460

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@andersk andersk commented Apr 3, 2019

The old regex may take quadratic time to scan for potential email addresses starting at every point. Fix it to avoid scanning from points that would have been in the middle of a previous scan.

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UziTech commented Apr 3, 2019

actual diff of gfm inline.text

- /^(`+|[^`])[\s\S]*?(?=[\\<!\[`*~]|\b_| {2,}\n|https?:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|www\.|[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{\|}~-]+@|$)/
+ /^(`+|[^`])(?:[\s\S]*?(?:(?=[\\<!\[`*~]|\b_| {2,}\n|https?:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|www\.|$)|[^a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-](?=[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-]+@))|(?=[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-]+@))/

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Could you add a redos test in /test/redos/ that will fail before this change and pass after?

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andersk commented Apr 3, 2019

(Updated to address a separate quadratic slowdown in the same regex.)

@UziTech Do you want me to literally drop in a gigantic .md file consisting of aaaaaaaaaaaaa…, or should we find a way to test this more intelligently?

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UziTech commented Apr 3, 2019

Tests that take longer than 1 second are marked as failed. maybe slim it down to a test taking 2 seconds before this fix.

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andersk commented Apr 4, 2019

@UziTech Done.

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Thanks for working on this 💯 🏅

lib/marked.js Outdated Show resolved Hide resolved
The old regex may take quadratic time to scan for potential line
breaks or email addresses starting at every point.  Fix it to avoid
scanning from points that would have been in the middle of a previous
scan.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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UziTech commented Apr 4, 2019

@davisjam do you want to look at this and make sure no redos vectors are added?

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ var inline = {
code: /^(`+)([^`]|[^`][\s\S]*?[^`])\1(?!`)/,
br: /^( {2,}|\\)\n(?!\s*$)/,
del: noop,
text: /^(`+|[^`])[\s\S]*?(?=[\\<!\[`*]|\b_| {2,}\n|$)/
text: /^(`+|[^`])(?:[\s\S]*?(?:(?=[\\<!\[`*]|\b_|$)|[^ ](?= {2,}\n))|(?= {2,}\n))/
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I believe this is safe

.replace(']|', '~]|')
.replace('|$', '|https?://|ftp://|www\\.|[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&\'*+/=?^_`{\\|}~-]+@|$')
.getRegex()
text: /^(`+|[^`])(?:[\s\S]*?(?:(?=[\\<!\[`*~]|\b_|https?:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|www\.|$)|[^ ](?= {2,}\n)|[^a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-](?=[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-]+@))|(?= {2,}\n|[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?_`{\|}~-]+@))/
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I believe this is safe

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LGTM

@UziTech UziTech merged commit b1ddd3c into markedjs:master Apr 5, 2019
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UziTech commented Apr 5, 2019

This will be released in v0.6.2 🎉 #1441

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