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1 ;;;; unsafep.el -- Determine whether a Lisp form is safe to evaluate
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Jonathan Yavner <jyavner@member.fsf.org>
6 ;; Maintainer: Jonathan Yavner <jyavner@member.fsf.org>
7 ;; Keywords: safety lisp utility
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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24 ;;; Commentary:
26 ;; This is a simplistic implementation that does not allow any modification of
27 ;; buffers or global variables. It does no dataflow analysis, so functions
28 ;; like `funcall' and `setcar' are completely disallowed. It is designed
29 ;; for "pure Lisp" formulas, like those in spreadsheets, that don't make any
30 ;; use of the text editing capabilities of Emacs.
32 ;; A formula is safe if:
33 ;; 1. It's an atom.
34 ;; 2. It's a function call to a safe function and all arguments are safe
35 ;; formulas.
36 ;; 3. It's a special form whose arguments are like a function's (and,
37 ;; catch, if, or, prog1, prog2, progn, while, unwind-protect).
38 ;; 4. It's a special form or macro that creates safe temporary bindings
39 ;; (condition-case, dolist, dotimes, lambda, let, let*).
40 ;; 4. It's one of (cond, quote) that have special parsing.
41 ;; 5. It's one of (add-to-list, setq, push, pop) and the assignment variable
42 ;; is safe.
43 ;; 6. It's one of (apply, mapc, mapcar, mapconcat) and its first arg is a
44 ;; quoted safe function.
46 ;; A function is safe if:
47 ;; 1. It's a lambda containing safe formulas.
48 ;; 2. It's a member of list `safe-functions', so the user says it's safe.
49 ;; 3. It's a symbol with the `side-effect-free' property, defined by the
50 ;; byte compiler or function author.
51 ;; 4. It's a symbol with the `safe-function' property, defined here or by
52 ;; the function author. Value t indicates a function that is safe but
53 ;; has innocuous side effects. Other values will someday indicate
54 ;; functions with side effects that are not always safe.
55 ;; The `side-effect-free' and `safe-function' properties are provided for
56 ;; built-in functions and for functions and macros defined in subr.el.
58 ;; A temporary binding is unsafe if its symbol:
59 ;; 1. Has the `risky-local-variable' property.
60 ;; 2. Has a name that ends with -command, font-lock-keywords(-[0-9]+)?,
61 ;; font-lock-syntactic-keywords, -form, -forms, -frame-alist, -function,
62 ;; -functions, -history, -hook, -hooks, -map, -map-alist, -mode-alist,
63 ;; -predicate, or -program.
65 ;; An assignment variable is unsafe if:
66 ;; 1. It would be unsafe as a temporary binding.
67 ;; 2. It doesn't already have a temporary or buffer-local binding.
69 ;; There are unsafe forms that `unsafep' cannot detect. Beware of these:
70 ;; 1. The form's result is a string with a display property containing a
71 ;; form to be evaluated later, and you insert this result into a
72 ;; buffer. Always remove display properties before inserting!
73 ;; 2. The form alters a risky variable that was recently added to Emacs and
74 ;; is not yet marked with the `risky-local-variable' property.
75 ;; 3. The form uses undocumented features of built-in functions that have
76 ;; the `side-effect-free' property. For example, in Emacs-20 if you
77 ;; passed a circular list to `assoc', Emacs would crash. Historically,
78 ;; problems of this kind have been few and short-lived.
80 ;;; Code:
82 (provide 'unsafep)
83 (require 'byte-opt) ;Set up the `side-effect-free' properties
85 (defcustom safe-functions nil
86 "A list of assumed-safe functions, or t to disable `unsafep'."
87 :group 'lisp
88 :type '(choice (const :tag "No" nil) (const :tag "Yes" t) hook))
90 (defvar unsafep-vars nil
91 "Dynamically-bound list of variables with lexical bindings at this point
92 in the parse.")
93 (put 'unsafep-vars 'risky-local-variable t)
95 ;;Side-effect-free functions from subr.el
96 (dolist (x '(assoc-default assoc-ignore-case butlast last match-string
97 match-string-no-properties member-ignore-case remove remq))
98 (put x 'side-effect-free t))
100 ;;Other safe functions
101 (dolist (x '(;;Special forms
102 and catch if or prog1 prog2 progn while unwind-protect
103 ;;Safe subrs that have some side-effects
104 ding error message minibuffer-message random read-minibuffer
105 signal sleep-for string-match throw y-or-n-p yes-or-no-p
106 ;;Defsubst functions from subr.el
107 caar cadr cdar cddr
108 ;;Macros from subr.el
109 save-match-data unless when with-temp-message
110 ;;Functions from subr.el that have side effects
111 read-passwd split-string replace-regexp-in-string
112 play-sound-file))
113 (put x 'safe-function t))
115 ;;;###autoload
116 (defun unsafep (form &optional unsafep-vars)
117 "Return nil if evaluating FORM couldn't possibly do any harm.
118 Otherwise result is a reason why FORM is unsafe.
119 UNSAFEP-VARS is a list of symbols with local bindings."
120 (catch 'unsafep
121 (if (or (eq safe-functions t) ;User turned off safety-checking
122 (atom form)) ;Atoms are never unsafe
123 (throw 'unsafep nil))
124 (let* ((fun (car form))
125 (reason (unsafep-function fun))
126 arg)
127 (cond
128 ((not reason)
129 ;;It's a normal function - unsafe if any arg is
130 (unsafep-progn (cdr form)))
131 ((eq fun 'quote)
132 ;;Never unsafe
133 nil)
134 ((memq fun '(apply mapc mapcar mapconcat))
135 ;;Unsafe if 1st arg isn't a quoted lambda
136 (setq arg (cadr form))
137 (cond
138 ((memq (car-safe arg) '(quote function))
139 (setq reason (unsafep-function (cadr arg))))
140 ((eq (car-safe arg) 'lambda)
141 ;;Self-quoting lambda
142 (setq reason (unsafep arg unsafep-vars)))
144 (setq reason `(unquoted ,arg))))
145 (or reason (unsafep-progn (cddr form))))
146 ((eq fun 'lambda)
147 ;;First arg is temporary bindings
148 (mapc #'(lambda (x)
149 (or (memq x '(&optional &rest))
150 (let ((y (unsafep-variable x t)))
151 (if y (throw 'unsafep y))
152 (push x unsafep-vars))))
153 (cadr form))
154 (unsafep-progn (cddr form)))
155 ((eq fun 'let)
156 ;;Creates temporary bindings in one step
157 (setq unsafep-vars (nconc (mapcar #'unsafep-let (cadr form))
158 unsafep-vars))
159 (unsafep-progn (cddr form)))
160 ((eq fun 'let*)
161 ;;Creates temporary bindings iteratively
162 (dolist (x (cadr form))
163 (push (unsafep-let x) unsafep-vars))
164 (unsafep-progn (cddr form)))
165 ((eq fun 'setq)
166 ;;Safe if odd arguments are local-var syms, evens are safe exprs
167 (setq arg (cdr form))
168 (while arg
169 (setq reason (or (unsafep-variable (car arg) nil)
170 (unsafep (cadr arg) unsafep-vars)))
171 (if reason (throw 'unsafep reason))
172 (setq arg (cddr arg))))
173 ((eq fun 'pop)
174 ;;safe if arg is local-var sym
175 (unsafep-variable (cadr form) nil))
176 ((eq fun 'push)
177 ;;Safe if 2nd arg is a local-var sym
178 (or (unsafep (cadr form) unsafep-vars)
179 (unsafep-variable (nth 2 form) nil)))
180 ((eq fun 'add-to-list)
181 ;;Safe if first arg is a quoted local-var sym
182 (setq arg (cadr form))
183 (if (not (eq (car-safe arg) 'quote))
184 `(unquoted ,arg)
185 (or (unsafep-variable (cadr arg) nil)
186 (unsafep-progn (cddr form)))))
187 ((eq fun 'cond)
188 ;;Special form with unusual syntax - safe if all args are
189 (dolist (x (cdr form))
190 (setq reason (unsafep-progn x))
191 (if reason (throw 'unsafep reason))))
192 ((memq fun '(dolist dotimes))
193 ;;Safe if COUNT and RESULT are safe. VAR is bound while checking BODY.
194 (setq arg (cadr form))
195 (or (unsafep-progn (cdr arg))
196 (let ((unsafep-vars (cons (car arg) unsafep-vars)))
197 (unsafep-progn (cddr form)))))
198 ((eq fun 'condition-case)
199 ;;Special form with unusual syntax - safe if all args are
200 (or (unsafep-variable (cadr form) t)
201 (unsafep (nth 2 form) unsafep-vars)
202 (let ((unsafep-vars (cons (cadr form) unsafep-vars)))
203 ;;var is bound only during handlers
204 (dolist (x (nthcdr 3 form))
205 (setq reason (unsafep-progn (cdr x)))
206 (if reason (throw 'unsafep reason))))))
208 ;;First unsafep-function call above wasn't nil, no special case applies
209 reason)))))
212 (defun unsafep-function (fun)
213 "Return nil if FUN is a safe function.
214 \(Either a safe lambda or a symbol that names a safe function).
215 Otherwise result is a reason code."
216 (cond
217 ((eq (car-safe fun) 'lambda)
218 (unsafep fun unsafep-vars))
219 ((not (and (symbolp fun)
220 (or (get fun 'side-effect-free)
221 (eq (get fun 'safe-function) t)
222 (eq safe-functions t)
223 (memq fun safe-functions))))
224 `(function ,fun))))
226 (defun unsafep-progn (list)
227 "Return nil if all forms in LIST are safe.
228 Else, return the reason for the first unsafe form."
229 (catch 'unsafep-progn
230 (let (reason)
231 (dolist (x list)
232 (setq reason (unsafep x unsafep-vars))
233 (if reason (throw 'unsafep-progn reason))))))
235 (defun unsafep-let (clause)
236 "Check the safety of a let binding.
237 CLAUSE is a let-binding, either SYM or (SYM) or (SYM VAL).
238 Check VAL and throw a reason to `unsafep' if unsafe.
239 Return SYM."
240 (let (reason sym)
241 (if (atom clause)
242 (setq sym clause)
243 (setq sym (car clause)
244 reason (unsafep (cadr clause) unsafep-vars)))
245 (setq reason (or (unsafep-variable sym t) reason))
246 (if reason (throw 'unsafep reason))
247 sym))
249 (defun unsafep-variable (sym to-bind)
250 "Return nil if SYM is safe to set or bind, or a reason why not.
251 If TO-BIND is nil, check whether SYM is safe to set.
252 If TO-BIND is t, check whether SYM is safe to bind."
253 (cond
254 ((not (symbolp sym))
255 `(variable ,sym))
256 ((risky-local-variable-p sym nil)
257 `(risky-local-variable ,sym))
258 ((not (or to-bind
259 (memq sym unsafep-vars)
260 (local-variable-p sym)))
261 `(global-variable ,sym))))
263 ;; arch-tag: 6216f98b-eb8f-467a-9c33-7a7644f50658
264 ;;; unsafep.el ends here