Re: [PATCH v2] grep: correctly initialize help-all option

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 09.04.2015 um 21:59 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt:
> The "help-all" option is being initialized with a wrong value.
> While being semantically wrong this can also cause a segmentation
> fault in gcc on ARMv7 hardfloat platforms with a hardened
> toolchain. Fix this by initializing with a NULL value.

Because the pointer is not used it can't exactly be "wrong".  The 
callback function could call usage_with_options itself using that 
pointer, for example.  I suspect that's what an earlier version did (I 
don't remember).

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> ---
>
> Added missing sign-off and changed initialization with &opts to
> initialization with NULL according to Eric's comment as the value
> is not being used anyway.

Thanks, it looks good.

>
>   builtin/grep.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
> index abc4400..d04f440 100644
> --- a/builtin/grep.c
> +++ b/builtin/grep.c
> @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)default_pager },
>   		OPT_BOOL(0, "ext-grep", &external_grep_allowed__ignored,
>   			 N_("allow calling of grep(1) (ignored by this build)")),
> -		{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "help-all", &options, NULL, N_("show usage"),
> +		{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "help-all", NULL, NULL, N_("show usage"),
>   		  PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NOARG, help_callback },
>   		OPT_END()
>   	};
>