From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: fix off by one read.
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:05:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxzb1032.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071112053725.4f0d1940.chriscool@tuxfamily.org
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> diff --git a/builtin-for-each-ref.c b/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> index 598d4e1..89ea37c 100644
> --- a/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> +++ b/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static const char *find_wholine(const char *who, int wholen, const char *buf, un
> if (!eol)
> return "";
> eol++;
> - if (eol[1] == '\n')
> + if (*eol == '\n')
> return ""; /* end of header */
> buf = eol;
> }
Good eyes. This would have broken if
(1) we had a header field that consists of a single character
and then LF. We would have mistaken such a line as the end
of header; or
(2) we had a commit or a tag that consists solely of header and
no body. We would have read past the terminating NUL.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 4:37 [PATCH] for-each-ref: fix off by one read Christian Couder
2007-11-13 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-11-13 5:15 ` Christian Couder
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