# HG changeset patch # User Augie Fackler # Date 1508208283 14400 # Node ID 4fdc4adbc838e14516d3df8cd21f6212bf159d9a # Parent 537de0b14030868e3e850ae388b08f88cabc88e8 templatefilters: defend against evil unicode strs in json filter We only want to do I/O in terms of bytes, so lets explode early instead of recursing forever. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1136 diff -r 537de0b14030 -r 4fdc4adbc838 mercurial/templatefilters.py --- a/mercurial/templatefilters.py Wed Sep 20 19:38:06 2017 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/templatefilters.py Mon Oct 16 22:44:43 2017 -0400 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from . import ( encoding, + error, hbisect, node, pycompat, @@ -233,6 +234,13 @@ return pycompat.bytestr(obj) elif isinstance(obj, bytes): return '"%s"' % encoding.jsonescape(obj, paranoid=paranoid) + elif isinstance(obj, str): + # This branch is unreachable on Python 2, because bytes == str + # and we'll return in the next-earlier block in the elif + # ladder. On Python 3, this helps us catch bugs before they + # hurt someone. + raise error.ProgrammingError( + 'Mercurial only does output with bytes on Python 3: %r' % obj) elif util.safehasattr(obj, 'keys'): out = ['"%s": %s' % (encoding.jsonescape(k, paranoid=paranoid), json(v, paranoid))