From 19ceb486f8dd25fb5782724c454edb2f06f1ed71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elijah Newren Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 06:09:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] merge-ort: avoid accidental API mis-use Previously, callers of the merge-ort API could have passed an uninitialized value for struct merge_result *result. However, we want to check result to see if it has cached renames from a previous merge that we can reuse; such values would be found behind result->priv. However, if result->priv is uninitialized, attempting to access behind it will give a segfault. So, we need result->priv to be NULL (which will be the case if the caller does a memset(&result, 0)), or be written by a previous call to the merge-ort machinery. Documenting this requirement may help, but despite being the person who introduced this requirement, I still missed it once and it did not fail in a very clear way and led to a long debugging session. Add a _properly_initialized field to merge_result; that value will be 0 if the caller zero'ed the merge_result, it will be set to a very specific value by a previous run by the merge-ort machinery, and if it's uninitialized it will most likely either be 0 or some value that does not match the specific one we'd expect allowing us to throw a much more meaningful error. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- merge-ort.c | 7 +++++++ merge-ort.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c index 1176bae25f..8b2c93fdcf 100644 --- a/merge-ort.c +++ b/merge-ort.c @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ enum merge_side { MERGE_SIDE2 = 2 }; +static unsigned RESULT_INITIALIZED = 0x1abe11ed; /* unlikely accidental value */ + struct traversal_callback_data { unsigned long mask; unsigned long dirmask; @@ -3768,6 +3770,10 @@ static void merge_start(struct merge_options *opt, struct merge_result *result) assert(opt->obuf.len == 0); assert(opt->priv == NULL); + if (result->_properly_initialized != 0 && + result->_properly_initialized != RESULT_INITIALIZED) + BUG("struct merge_result passed to merge_incore_*recursive() must be zeroed or filled with values from a previous run"); + assert(!!result->priv == !!result->_properly_initialized); if (result->priv) { opt->priv = result->priv; result->priv = NULL; @@ -3927,6 +3933,7 @@ static void merge_ort_nonrecursive_internal(struct merge_options *opt, result->clean &= strmap_empty(&opt->priv->conflicted); if (!opt->priv->call_depth) { result->priv = opt->priv; + result->_properly_initialized = RESULT_INITIALIZED; opt->priv = NULL; } } diff --git a/merge-ort.h b/merge-ort.h index d53a0a339f..c011864ffe 100644 --- a/merge-ort.h +++ b/merge-ort.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ struct merge_result { * !clean) and to print "CONFLICT" messages. Not for external use. */ void *priv; + /* Also private */ + unsigned _properly_initialized; }; /*