Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live
throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK
marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks..
* ma/builtin-unleak:
builtin/: add UNLEAKs
Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll emulation from
the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop.
* rb/compat-poll-fix:
poll.c: always set revents, even if to zero
Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind.
* tg/memfixes:
sub-process: use child_process.args instead of child_process.argv
http-push: fix construction of hex value from path
path.c: fix uninitialized memory access
The feature that allows --pretty='%(trailers)' to take modifiers
like "fold" and "only" used to separate these modifiers with a
comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold:only)", but we changed our mind and
use a comma, i.e. "%(trailers:fold,only)". Fast track this change
before this new feature becomes part of any official release.
* tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma:
pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments with ","
When the flags for broken and dirty were implemented in
b0176ce6b5 (builtin/describe: introduce --broken flag, 2017-03-21)
and 9f67d2e827 (Teach "git describe" --dirty option, 2009-10-21)
the completion was not updated, although these flags are useful
completions. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the argument order for test_cmp. When given the expected
result first the diff shows the actual output with '+' and the
expectation with '-', which is the convention for our tests.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If our call to refs_read_raw_ref() fails, we check errno to
see if the ref is simply missing, or if we encountered a
more serious error. If it's just missing, then in "write"
mode (i.e., when RESOLVE_REFS_READING is not set), this is
perfectly fine.
However, checking for ENOENT isn't sufficient to catch all
missing-ref cases. In the filesystem backend, we may also
see EISDIR when we try to resolve "a" and "a/b" exists.
Likewise, we may see ENOTDIR if we try to resolve "a/b" and
"a" exists. In both of those cases, we know that our
resolved ref doesn't exist, but we return an error (rather
than reporting the refname and returning a null sha1).
This has been broken for a long time, but nobody really
noticed because the next step after resolving without the
READING flag is usually to lock the ref and write it. But in
both of those cases, the write will fail with the same
errno due to the directory/file conflict.
There are two cases where we can notice this, though:
1. If we try to write "a" and there's a leftover directory
already at "a", even though there is no ref "a/b". The
actual write is smart enough to move the empty "a" out
of the way.
This is reasonably rare, if only because the writing
code has to do an independent resolution before trying
its write (because the actual update_ref() code handles
this case fine). The notes-merge code does this, and
before the fix in the prior commit t3308 erroneously
expected this case to fail.
2. When resolving symbolic refs, we typically do not use
the READING flag because we want to resolve even
symrefs that point to unborn refs. Even if those unborn
refs could not actually be written because of d/f
conflicts with existing refs.
You can see this by asking "git symbolic-ref" to report
the target of a symref pointing past a d/f conflict.
We can fix the problem by recognizing the other "missing"
errnos and treating them like ENOENT. This should be safe to
do even for callers who are then going to actually write the
ref, because the actual writing process will fail if the d/f
conflict is a real one (and t1404 checks these cases).
Arguably this should be the responsibility of the
files-backend to normalize all "missing ref" errors into
ENOENT (since something like EISDIR may not be meaningful at
all to a database backend). However other callers of
refs_read_raw_ref() may actually care about the distinction;
putting this into resolve_ref() is the minimal fix for now.
The new tests in t1401 use git-symbolic-ref, which is the
most direct way to check the resolution by itself.
Interestingly we actually had a test that setup this case
already, but we only used it to verify that the funny state
could be overwritten, not that it could be resolved.
We also add a new test in t3200, as "branch -m" was the
original motivation for looking into this. What happens is
this:
0. HEAD is pointing to branch "a"
1. The user asks to rename "a" to "a/b".
2. We create "a/b" and delete "a".
3. We then try to update any worktree HEADs that point to
the renamed ref (including the main repo HEAD). To do
that, we have to resolve each HEAD. But now our HEAD is
pointing at "a", and we get EISDIR due to the loose
"a/b". As a result, we think there is no HEAD, and we
do not update it. It now points to the bogus "a".
Interestingly this case used to work, but only accidentally.
Before 31824d180d (branch: fix branch renaming not updating
HEADs correctly, 2017-08-24), we'd update any HEAD which we
couldn't resolve. That was wrong, but it papered over the
fact that we were incorrectly failing to resolve HEAD.
So while the bug demonstrated by the git-symbolic-ref is
quite old, the regression to "branch -m" is recent.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A test in t3308 wants to make sure that we don't
accidentally merge into "refs/notes/dir" when it exists as a
directory, so it does:
mkdir .git/refs/notes/dir
git -c core.notesRef=refs/notes/dir merge ...
and expects the second command to fail. But that
understimates the refs code, which is smart enough to remove
useless directories in the refs hierarchy. The test
succeeded only because of a bug which prevented resolving
refs/notes/dir for writing, even though an actual ref update
would succeed.
In preparation for fixing that bug, let's switch to creating
a real ref in refs/notes/dir, which is a more realistic
situation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`update_index_if_able()` used to always commit the lock or roll it back.
Commit 03b866477 (read-cache: new API write_locked_index instead of
write_index/write_cache, 2014-06-13) stopped rolling it back in case a
write was not even attempted. This change in behavior is not motivated
in the commit message and appears to be accidental: the `else`-path was
removed, although that changed the behavior in case the `if` shortcuts.
Reintroduce the rollback and document this behavior. While at it, move
the documentation on this function from the function definition to the
function declaration in cache.h.
If `write_locked_index(..., COMMIT_LOCK)` fails, it will roll back the
lock for us (see the previous commit).
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the original version of `write_locked_index()` returned with an
error, it didn't roll back the lockfile unless the error occured at the
very end, during closing/committing. See commit 03b866477 (read-cache:
new API write_locked_index instead of write_index/write_cache,
2014-06-13).
In commit 9f41c7a6b (read-cache: close index.lock in do_write_index,
2017-04-26), we learned to close the lock slightly earlier in the
callstack. That was mostly a side-effect of lockfiles being implemented
using temporary files, but didn't cause any real harm.
Recently, commit 076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap,
2017-09-05) introduced a subtle bug. If the temporary file is deleted
(i.e., the lockfile is rolled back), the tempfile-pointer in the `struct
lock_file` will be left dangling. Thus, an attempt to reuse the
lockfile, or even just to roll it back, will induce undefined behavior
-- most likely a crash.
Besides not crashing, we clearly want to make things consistent. The
guarantees which the lockfile-machinery itself provides is A) if we ask
to commit and it fails, roll back, and B) if we ask to close and it
fails, do _not_ roll back. Let's do the same for consistency.
Do not delete the temporary file in `do_write_index()`. One of its
callers, `write_locked_index()` will thereby avoid rolling back the
lock. The other caller, `write_shared_index()`, will delete its
temporary file anyway. Both of these callers will avoid undefined
behavior (crashing).
Teach `write_locked_index(..., COMMIT_LOCK)` to roll back the lock
before returning. If we have already succeeded and committed, it will be
a noop. Simplify the existing callers where we now have a superfluous
call to `rollback_lockfile()`. That should keep future readers from
wondering why the callers are inconsistent.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`write_locked_index()` takes two flags: `COMMIT_LOCK` and `CLOSE_LOCK`.
At most one is allowed. But it is also possible to use no flag, i.e.,
`0`. But when `write_locked_index()` calls `do_write_index()`, the
temporary file, a.k.a. the lockfile, will be closed. So passing `0` is
effectively the same as `CLOSE_LOCK`, which seems like a bug.
We might feel tempted to restructure the code in order to close the file
later, or conditionally. It also feels a bit unfortunate that we simply
"happen" to close the lock by way of an implementation detail of
lockfiles. But note that we need to close the temporary file before
`stat`-ing it, at least on Windows. See 9f41c7a6b (read-cache: close
index.lock in do_write_index, 2017-04-26).
Drop `CLOSE_LOCK` and make it explicit that `write_locked_index()`
always closes the lock. Whether it is also committed is governed by the
remaining flag, `COMMIT_LOCK`.
This means we neither have nor suggest that we have a mode to write the
index and leave the file open. Whatever extra contents we might
eventually want to write, we should probably write it from within
`write_locked_index()` itself anyway.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 4f665f2cf3 (string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/
into header, 2017-09-26) the string-list API documentation was moved to
string-list.h. The argv-array API documentation may follow a similar
course in the future. Until then, prevent the broken link from making
it to the end-user documentation.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we are checking out a file and somebody else racily deletes our file,
then we would write garbage to the cache entry. Fix that by checking
the result of the lstat() call on that file. Print an error to the user
if the file does not exist.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement `is_expected_rev` & `check_expected_revs` shell function in
C and add a `--check-expected-revs` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to
call it from git-bisect.sh .
Using `--check-expected-revs` subcommand is a temporary measure to port
shell functions to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more
functions are ported, this subcommand would be retired but its
implementation will be called by some other method.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add test to explicitly check that 'git bisect reset' is working as
expected. This is already covered implicitly by the test suite.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement `bisect_clean_state` shell function in C and add a
`bisect-clean-state` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it from
git-bisect.sh .
Using `--bisect-clean-state` subcommand is a measure to port shell
function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more functions
are ported, this subcommand will be retired but its implementation will
be called by bisect_reset() and bisect_start().
Also introduce a function `mark_for_removal` to store the refs which
need to be removed while iterating through the refs.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement the `write_terms` shell function in C and add a `write-terms`
subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it from git-bisect.sh . Also
remove the subcommand `--check-term-format` as it can now be called from
inside the function write_terms() C implementation.
Also `|| exit` is added when calling write-terms subcommand from
git-bisect.sh so as to exit whenever there is an error.
Using `--write-terms` subcommand is a temporary measure to port shell
function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more functions
are ported, this subcommand will be retired and its implementation will
be called by some other method.
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement the `check_term_format` shell function in C and add
a `--check-term-format` subcommand to `git bisect--helper` to call it
from git-bisect.sh
Using `--check-term-format` subcommand is a temporary measure to port
shell function to C so as to use the existing test suite. As more
functions are ported, this subcommand will be retired and its
implementation will be called by some other method/subcommand. For
eg. In conversion of write_terms() of git-bisect.sh, the subcommand will
be removed and instead check_term_format() will be called in its C
implementation while a new subcommand will be introduced for write_terms().
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelein <Johannes.Schindelein@gmx.de>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`--next-all` is meant to be used as a subcommand to support multiple
"operation mode" though the current implementation does not contain any
other subcommand along side with `--next-all` but further commits will
include some more subcommands.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a caller of sha1_object_info_extended() sets the
"contentp" field in object_info, we call unpack_sha1_rest()
but do not check whether it signaled an error.
This causes two problems:
1. We pass back NULL to the caller via the contentp field,
but the function returns "0" for success. A caller
might reasonably expect after a successful return that
it can access contentp without a NULL check and
segfault.
As it happens, this is impossible to trigger in the
current code. There is exactly one caller which uses
contentp, read_object(). And the only thing it does
after a successful call is to return the content
pointer to its caller, using NULL as a sentinel for
errors. So in effect it converts the success code from
sha1_object_info_extended() back into an error!
But this is still worth addressing avoid problems for
future users of "contentp".
2. Callers of unpack_sha1_rest() are expected to close the
zlib stream themselves on error. Which means that we're
leaking the stream.
The problem in (1) comes from from c84a1f3ed4 (sha1_file:
refactor read_object, 2017-06-21), which added the contentp
field. Before that, we called unpack_sha1_rest() via
unpack_sha1_file(), which directly used the NULL to signal
an error.
But note that the leak in (2) is actually older than that.
The original unpack_sha1_file() directly returned the result
of unpack_sha1_rest() to its caller, when it should have
been closing the zlib stream itself on error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lookup_blob() and lookup_tree() can return NULL if they find an object
of an unexpected type. Accessing the object member is undefined in that
case. Cast the result to a struct object pointer instead; we can do
that because object is the first member of all object types. This trick
is already used in other places in the code.
An error message is already shown by object_as_type(), which is called
by the lookup functions. The walk callback functions are expected to
handle NULL object pointers passed to them, but put_object_name() needs
a valid object, so avoid calling it without one.
Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next patches will tweak the behavior of this function. Document it
in order to establish a basis for those patches.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to a previous patch, we do not need to use `newfd` to signal
that we have a lockfile to clean up. We can just unconditionally call
`rollback_lock_file`. If we do not hold the lock, it will be a no-op.
Where we check `newfd` to decide whether we need to take the lock, we
can instead use `is_lock_file_locked()`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two users of `struct apply_state` and the related functionality
in apply.c. Each user sets up its `apply_state` by handing over a
pointer to its static `lock_file`. (Before 076aa2cbd (tempfile:
auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05), we could never free
lockfiles, so making them static was a reasonable approach.)
Other than that, they never directly access their `lock_file`s, which
are instead handled by the functionality in apply.c.
To make life easier for the caller and to make it less tempting for a
future caller to mess with the lock, make apply.c fully responsible for
setting up the `lock_file`. As mentioned above, it is now safe to free a
`lock_file`, so we can make the `struct apply_state` contain an actual
`struct lock_file` instead of a pointer to one.
The user in builtin/apply.c is rather simple. For builtin/am.c, we might
worry that the lock state is actually meant to be inherited across
calls. But the lock is only taken as `apply_all_patches()` executes, and
code inspection shows that it will always be released.
Alternatively, we can observe that the lock itself is never queried
directly. When we decide whether we should lock, we check a related
variable `newfd`. That variable is not inherited, so from the point of
view of apply.c, the state machine really is reset with each call to
`init_apply_state()`. (It would be a bug if `newfd` and the lock status
were not in sync. The duplication of information in `newfd` and the lock
will be addressed in the next patch.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After we have taken the lock using `LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR`, we know that
`newfd` is non-negative. So when we check for exactly that property
before calling `write_locked_index()`, the outcome is guaranteed.
If we write and commit successfully, we set `newfd = -1`, so that we can
later avoid calling `rollback_lock_file` on an already-committed lock.
But we might just as well unconditionally call `rollback_lock_file()` --
it will be a no-op if we have already committed.
All in all, we use `newfd` as a bool and the only benefit we get from it
is that we can avoid calling a no-op. Remove `newfd` so that we have one
variable less to reason about.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`newfd` starts out negative. If we then take the lock, `newfd` will
become non-negative. We later check for exactly that property before
calling `write_locked_index()`. That is, we are simply using `newfd` as
a boolean to keep track of whether we took the lock or not. (We always
use `newfd` and `lock_file` together, so they really are mirroring each
other.)
Drop `newfd` and check with `is_lock_file_locked()` instead. While at
it, move the `static struct lock_file` into `cmd_checkout_index()` and
make it non-static. It is only used in this function, and after
076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap, 2017-09-05), we
can have lockfiles on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function has always been documented as returning 0 or -1. It is in
fact `void`. Correct that. As part of the rearrangements we lose the
mention that `delete_tempfile()` might set `errno`. Because there is
no return value, the user can't really know whether it did anyway.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 83a3069a3 (lockfile: do not rollback lock on failed close,
2017-09-05) forgot to update the documentation by the function definition
to reflect that the lock is not rolled back in case closing fails.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no longer any need to allocate and leak a `struct lock_file`.
The previous patch addressed an instance where we needed a minor tweak
alongside the trivial changes.
Deal with the remaining instances where we allocate and leak a struct
within a single function. Change them to have the `struct lock_file` on
the stack instead.
These instances were identified by running `git grep "^\s*struct
lock_file\s*\*"`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no longer any need to allocate and leak a `struct lock_file`.
Initialize it on the stack instead.
Before this patch, we set `lock = NULL` to signal that we have already
rolled back, and that we should not do any more work. We need to take
another approach now that we cannot assign NULL. We could, e.g., use
`is_lock_file_locked()`. But we already have another variable that we
could use instead, `found`. Its scope is only too small.
Bump `found` to the scope of the whole function and rearrange the "roll
back or write?"-checks to a straightforward if-else on `found`. This
also future-proves the code by making it obvious that we intend to take
exactly one of these paths.
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 2841e8f ("convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol",
2017-06-30) we taught the filter process protocol to delay responses.
That means an external filter might answer in the first write_entry()
call on a file that requires filtering "I got your request, but I
can't answer right now. Ask again later!". As Git got no answer, we do
not write anything to the filesystem. Consequently, the lstat() call in
the finish block of the function writes garbage to the cache entry.
The garbage is eventually overwritten when the filter answers with
the final file content in a subsequent write_entry() call.
Fix the brief time window of garbage in the cache entry by adding a
special finish block that does nothing for delayed responses. The cache
entry is written properly in a subsequent write_entry() call where
the filter responds with the final file content.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from
request-pull script.
* ar/request-pull-phrasofix:
request-pull: capitalise "Git" to make it a proper noun
Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with
clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress.
* sb/git-clang-format:
clang-format: add a comment about the meaning/status of the
Code clean-up.
* rs/cleanup-strbuf-users:
graph: use strbuf_addchars() to add spaces
use strbuf_addstr() for adding strings to strbufs
path: use strbuf_add_real_path()
Code clean-up.
* rs/resolve-ref-optional-result:
refs: pass NULL to resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
refs: pass NULL to refs_resolve_refdup() if hash is not needed
The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to
refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the
last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can
happen without any new object getting created.
* er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint:
fast-import: checkpoint: dump branches/tags/marks even if object_count==0
Peff points out that different atom parsers handle the empty
"sub-argument" list differently. An example of this is the format
"%(refname:)".
Since callers often use `string_list_split` (which splits the empty
string with any delimiter as a 1-ary string_list containing the empty
string), this makes handling empty sub-argument strings non-ergonomic.
Let's fix this by declaring that atom parser implementations must
not care about distinguishing between the empty string "%(refname:)"
and no sub-arguments "%(refname)". Current code aborts, either with
"unrecognised arg" (e.g. "refname:") or "does not take args"
(e.g. "body:") as an error message.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf_release leaves the strbuf in a valid, initialized state, so
there is no need to call strbuf_init after it.
Moreover, this is not likely to change in the future: strbuf_release
leaving the strbuf in a valid state has been easy to maintain and has
been very helpful for Git's robustness and simplicity (e.g.,
preventing use-after-free vulnerabilities).
Document the semantics so the next generation of Git developers can
become familiar with them without reading the implementation. It is
still not advisable to call strbuf_release too often because it is
wasteful, so add a note pointing to strbuf_reset for that.
The same semantics apply to strbuf_detach. Add a similar note to its
docstring to make that clear.
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our documentation advises to not re-use a strbuf, after strbuf_release
has been called on it. Use the proper reset instead.
Currently 'strbuf_release' releases and re-initializes the strbuf, so it
is safe, but slow. 'strbuf_reset' only resets the internal length variable,
such that this could also be accounted for as a micro-optimization.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the argv is only allocated on the stack, and then assigned to
process->argv. When the start_subprocess function goes out of scope,
the local argv variable is eliminated from the stack, but the pointer is
still kept around in process->argv.
Much later when we try to access the same process->argv in
finish_command, this leads us to access a memory location that no longer
contains what we want. As argv0 is only used for printing errors, this
is not easily noticed in normal git operations. However when running
t0021-conversion.sh through valgrind, valgrind rightfully complains:
==21024== Invalid read of size 8
==21024== at 0x2ACF64: finish_command (run-command.c:869)
==21024== by 0x2D6B18: subprocess_exit_handler (sub-process.c:72)
==21024== by 0x2AB41E: cleanup_children (run-command.c:45)
==21024== by 0x2AB526: cleanup_children_on_exit (run-command.c:81)
==21024== by 0x54AD487: __run_exit_handlers (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so)
==21024== by 0x54AD4D9: exit (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so)
==21024== by 0x11A9EF: handle_builtin (git.c:550)
==21024== by 0x11ABCC: run_argv (git.c:602)
==21024== by 0x11AD8E: cmd_main (git.c:679)
==21024== by 0x1BF125: main (common-main.c:43)
==21024== Address 0x1ffeffec00 is on thread 1's stack
==21024== 1504 bytes below stack pointer
==21024==
These days, the child_process structure has its own args array, and
the standard way to set up its argv[] is to use that one, instead of
assigning to process->argv to point at an array that is outside.
Use that facility automatically fixes this issue.
Reported-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The get_oid_hex_from_objpath takes care of creating a oid from a
pathname. It does this by memcpy'ing the first two bytes of the path to
the "hex" string, then skipping the '/', and then copying the rest of the
path to the "hex" string. Currently it fails to increase the pointer to
the hex string, so the second memcpy invocation just mashes over what
was copied in the first one, and leaves the last two bytes in the string
uninitialized.
This breaks valgrind in t5540, although the test passes without
valgrind:
==5490== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
==5490== at 0x13C6B5: hexval (cache.h:1238)
==5490== by 0x13C6DB: hex2chr (cache.h:1247)
==5490== by 0x13C734: get_sha1_hex (hex.c:42)
==5490== by 0x13C78E: get_oid_hex (hex.c:53)
==5490== by 0x118BDA: get_oid_hex_from_objpath (http-push.c:1023)
==5490== by 0x118C92: process_ls_object (http-push.c:1038)
==5490== by 0x118E5B: handle_remote_ls_ctx (http-push.c:1077)
==5490== by 0x118227: xml_end_tag (http-push.c:815)
==5490== by 0x50C1448: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6)
==5490== by 0x50C221B: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6)
==5490== by 0x50BFBF2: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6)
==5490== by 0x50C0B24: ??? (in /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.6.6)
==5490== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
==5490== at 0x118B63: get_oid_hex_from_objpath (http-push.c:1012)
==5490==
Fix this by correctly incrementing the pointer to the "hex" variable, so
the first two bytes are left untouched by the memcpy call, and the last
two bytes are correctly initialized.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
