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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Joe Ranieri <jranieri@grammatech.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return value)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190218151725.GL1622@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ff48830-f3de-11f4-9014-c20eb3890c21@grammatech.com>

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 08:49:39AM -0500, Joe Ranieri wrote:
> "git ls-files -m" can show deleted files, despite -d not having been
> specified. 

To my understanding that's intentional: a deleted file is considered
modified, because its content clearly doesn't match the tracked
content.


> This is due to ls-files.c's show_files function calling lstat but
> not checking the return value before calling ie_modified with the
> uninitialized stat structure.
> 
> This problem was found using the static analysis tool GrammaTech CodeSonar.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-17 13:49 [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return value) Joe Ranieri
2019-02-17 15:59 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-18 14:09   ` Joe Ranieri
2019-02-18 15:17 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-02-18 16:14   ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-20 22:51   ` Junio C Hamano

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