Marc Espie reported that "man p*ipc" displayed the perlipc(1) manual.

The reason was that as a last resort when failing to find a page
name in mandoc.db(5) or at a few well well-defined fully qualified
file names, man(1) uses glob(3) to look for candidate files in
relevant directories, because some operating systems have weird
file name extensions, for example pcap.3pcap and BF_set_key.3ssl
on Linux.  But during that globbing, the metacharacters "*?[" need
to be escaped in the name, section, and path supplied by the user,
or you would get weird false positives and misleading warning
messages and would be unable to use the fallback for path or file
names that actually contain an opening bracket.
Feedback and OK espie@.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index b84a9a2b..862eb9bf 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$Id: main.c,v 1.343 2020/02/10 13:49:15 schwarze Exp $ */
+/*	$Id: main.c,v 1.344 2020/02/24 21:16:31 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
  * Copyright (c) 2010-2012, 2014-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static	int		  fs_lookup(const struct manpaths *,
 static	int		  fs_search(const struct mansearch *,
 				const struct manpaths *, const char *,
 				struct manpage **, size_t *);
+static	void		  glob_esc(char **, const char *, const char *);
 static	void		  outdata_alloc(struct outstate *, struct manoutput *);
 static	void		  parse(struct mparse *, int, const char *,
 				struct outstate *, struct manoutput *);
@@ -674,6 +675,18 @@ usage(enum argmode argmode)
 	exit((int)MANDOCLEVEL_BADARG);
 }
 
+static void
+glob_esc(char **dst, const char *src, const char *suffix)
+{
+	while (*src != '\0') {
+		if (strchr("*?[", *src) != NULL)
+			*(*dst)++ = '\\';
+		*(*dst)++ = *src++;
+	}
+	while (*suffix != '\0')
+		*(*dst)++ = *suffix++;
+}
+
 static int
 fs_lookup(const struct manpaths *paths, size_t ipath,
 	const char *sec, const char *arch, const char *name,
@@ -682,10 +695,14 @@ fs_lookup(const struct manpaths *paths, size_t ipath,
 	struct stat	 sb;
 	glob_t		 globinfo;
 	struct manpage	*page;
-	char		*file;
+	char		*file, *cp;
 	int		 globres;
 	enum form	 form;
 
+	const char *const slman = "/man";
+	const char *const slash = "/";
+	const char *const sglob = ".[01-9]*";
+
 	form = FORM_SRC;
 	mandoc_asprintf(&file, "%s/man%s/%s.%s",
 	    paths->paths[ipath], sec, name, sec);
@@ -709,8 +726,13 @@ fs_lookup(const struct manpaths *paths, size_t ipath,
 		free(file);
 	}
 
-	mandoc_asprintf(&file, "%s/man%s/%s.[01-9]*",
-	    paths->paths[ipath], sec, name);
+	cp = file = mandoc_malloc(strlen(paths->paths[ipath]) * 2 +
+	    strlen(slman) + strlen(sec) * 2 + strlen(slash) +
+	    strlen(name) * 2 + strlen(sglob) + 1);
+	glob_esc(&cp, paths->paths[ipath], slman);
+	glob_esc(&cp, sec, slash);
+	glob_esc(&cp, name, sglob);
+	*cp = '\0';
 	globres = glob(file, 0, NULL, &globinfo);
 	if (globres != 0 && globres != GLOB_NOMATCH)
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_GLOB, 0, 0,