Re: [msysGit] Pull request for msysGit patches

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

On Dienstag, 28. September 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> >>       mingw: do not crash on open(NULL, ...)
> >
> > This one is bogus, and as it stands, it must have my Ack removed. :)
> > Needs the same fix in mingw_fopen as mingw_freopen. (There remains an
> > unprotected dereference of filename.)
>
> I believe the version in for-junio already has this fix squashed in.
> The following hunk, taken from
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/4msysgit.git/blobdiff/4e93566b07dcf47ecb6484d
>225418c04c1eedee6..b18500977d88b13803ecc60cf383538139ec09d8:/compat/mingw.c
> shows that it is... Or are you thinking of something else?
>
> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ FILE *mingw_fopen (const char *filename, const char
>	if (hide_dotfiles == HIDE_DOTFILES_TRUE &&
>  	basename((char*)filename)[0] == '.')
                        ^^^^^^^^
This can crash, too.

>  		hide = access(filename, F_OK);
> -	if (!strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
> +	if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
>  		filename = "nul";
>  	file = fopen(filename, otype);
>  	if (file && hide && make_hidden(filename))

-- Hannes