[Patch] Add regex_constants::__polynomial

[Tim Shen]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 16/02/15 22:10 +0000, Tim Shen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> The Thompson NFA algorithm (BFS approach) in libstdc++ regex exists for a
>> while, and I do think we can add it to the standard as a flag
>> regex_constants::syntax_option_type::polynomial, which requires the regex
>> compiler to produce a NFA that never consumes exponentially large space
>> and
>> and exectuer not to consume exponential time for matching. It's good for
>> security reasons.
>>
>> When compiling a regex with this flag, a back-reference in regex will
>> cause
>> a regex_error::error_type::unexpected_backref exception, since matching a
>> backref in polynomial time is as hard as proving P=NP :P. I think that's
>> the only requirement of this flag.
>>
>> re2 <https://code.google.com/p/re2/> is a library that actually implements
>> this requirement.
>>
>> Do you think it's an appropriate proposal?
>>
>> Thanks! :)
>
>
> The names would have to be uglified so e.g. __polynomial and
> __unexpected_backref but I think it's an excellent idea.

As discussed with Jon, we think it's a good idea to add the
__polynomial as an extension flag for exposing our BFS executer
(Thompson NFA matching algorithm).

Currently ECMAScript doesn't correctly support Thompson NFA though;
I'm actually (slowly) doing a refactoring starting with ECMAScript,
but I think it's still good to let users use it earlier.

Bootstrapped and tested.

Thanks!


-- 
Regards,
Tim Shen
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commit 38469980d4b5cf2a71d0a340415864394a404509
Author: Tim Shen <timshen@google.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 25 00:23:52 2015 -0700

    	* include/bits/regex.tcc: Handle regex_constants::__polynomial.
    	* include/bits/regex_automaton.tcc: Throw exception when parsing
    	back-reference with flag __polynomial.
    	* include/bits/regex_constants.h: Add extension flag
    	syntax_option_type __polynomial.

diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex.tcc b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex.tcc
index 823ad51..fedc2b9 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex.tcc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex.tcc
@@ -28,13 +28,6 @@
  *  Do not attempt to use it directly. @headername{regex}
  */
 
-// A non-standard switch to let the user pick the matching algorithm.
-// If _GLIBCXX_REGEX_USE_THOMPSON_NFA is defined, the thompson NFA
-// algorithm will be used. This algorithm is not enabled by default,
-// and cannot be used if the regex contains back-references, but has better
-// (polynomial instead of exponential) worst case performance.
-// See __regex_algo_impl below.
-
 namespace std _GLIBCXX_VISIBILITY(default)
 {
 namespace __detail
@@ -67,16 +60,10 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
       for (auto& __it : __res)
 	__it.matched = false;
 
-      // __policy is used by testsuites so that they can use Thompson NFA
-      // without defining a macro. Users should define
-      // _GLIBCXX_REGEX_USE_THOMPSON_NFA if they need to use this approach.
       bool __ret;
-      if (!__re._M_automaton->_M_has_backref
-	  && !(__re._M_flags & regex_constants::ECMAScript)
-#ifndef _GLIBCXX_REGEX_USE_THOMPSON_NFA
-	  && __policy == _RegexExecutorPolicy::_S_alternate
-#endif
-	  )
+      if ((__re.flags() & regex_constants::__polynomial)
+	  || (__policy == _RegexExecutorPolicy::_S_alternate
+	      && !__re._M_automaton->_M_has_backref))
 	{
 	  _Executor<_BiIter, _Alloc, _TraitsT, false>
 	    __executor(__s, __e, __m, __re, __flags);
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_automaton.tcc b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_automaton.tcc
index fbc3389..72fe978 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_automaton.tcc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_automaton.tcc
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
     _StateIdT
     _NFA<_TraitsT>::_M_insert_backref(size_t __index)
     {
+      if (this->_M_flags & regex_constants::__polynomial)
+	__throw_regex_error(regex_constants::error_complexity);
       // To figure out whether a backref is valid, a stack is used to store
       // unfinished sub-expressions. For example, when parsing
       // "(a(b)(c\\1(d)))" at '\\1', _M_subexpr_count is 3, indicating that 3
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_constants.h b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_constants.h
index e2c7631..80ec761 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_constants.h
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/regex_constants.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
     _S_awk,
     _S_grep,
     _S_egrep,
+    _S_polynomial,
     _S_syntax_last
   };
 
@@ -169,6 +170,15 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
   constexpr syntax_option_type egrep =
     static_cast<syntax_option_type>(1 << _S_egrep);
 
+  /**
+   * Extension: Ensure both space complexity of compiled regex and
+   * time complexity execution are not exponential.
+   * If specified in a regex with back-references, the exception
+   * regex_constants::error_complexity will be thrown.
+   */
+  constexpr syntax_option_type __polynomial =
+    static_cast<syntax_option_type>(1 << _S_polynomial);
+
   constexpr inline syntax_option_type
   operator&(syntax_option_type __a, syntax_option_type __b)
   {
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/28_regex/algorithms/regex_search/61424.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/28_regex/algorithms/regex_search/61424.cc
index 784be29..82449ce 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/28_regex/algorithms/regex_search/61424.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/28_regex/algorithms/regex_search/61424.cc
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ int main()
     regex re("tour|tournament|tourn", g);
     const char str[] = "tournament";
     cmatch m;
-    VERIFY(regex_search_debug(str, m, re));
+    VERIFY(regex_search(str, m, re));
+    // TODO: Fix ECMAScript BFS matcher.
+    //VERIFY(regex_search_debug(str, m, re));
     VERIFY(sol[i] == m[0]);
     i++;
   }