MDEV-23893: Apply Sergei’s patch to validate numeric suffix parsing #4425
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Summary
This patch applies Sergei’s proposed fix for MDEV-23893, ensuring that invalid suffixes for numeric configuration options (like
expire_logs_days) are properly rejected.In previous MariaDB versions (10.3–10.5), the server incorrectly accepted values such as:
This patch adds stricter validation during numeric suffix parsing.
✅ Changes
eval_num_suffix()to reject suffixes longer than one character (ab,hjh, etc.).eval_num_suffix_ll()to handle empty or invalid numeric values.🧠 Technical Details
This prevents multi-character suffixes from being accepted.
Also, additional range and parsing checks were added for safer numeric handling.
🧑💻 Credits
🔧 Testing
Verified that invalid values such as
expire_logs_days=abcorexpire_logs_days=pqnow trigger an error during startup.