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From: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, peff@peff.net, newren@gmail.com,
	Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
	Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] strbuf-safe: add sstrbuf_grow()
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:02:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebd91b95209d778727dca1bfcce17dcb76b3151f.1789736540.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2230.git.1789736540.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>

After a few changes in preparation, we are now ready to create our first
'safe' strbuf API method: sstrbuf_grow(). This is a safe version of
strbuf_grow().

On naming: For safe equivalents of existing methods, I'm prepending a single
's' character. The intention is to make the safe API non-intrusive.
Alternatives could be to append '_gentle' like many other APIs that avoid a
die() on malformed user data, but we need to be even safer than these gentle
methods, which still die() on allocation failures or other system-level
errors. This 's' prefix is similar to the 'x' prefix used by git-compat-util
helpers.

I selected strbuf_grow() as the first method to move because it doesn't
depend on any other strbuf API method, but is called by many other strbuf
API calls, including strbuf_release() or strbuf_init(). Thus, this will be a
helper to several other implementations that are coming in upcoming changes.

No callers directly depend on sstrbuf_grow(), but the non-safe strbuf_grow()
now uses it as declared in strbuf-safe.h.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile      |  1 +
 meson.build   |  1 +
 strbuf-safe.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 strbuf-safe.h |  7 +++++++
 strbuf.c      | 11 ++++-------
 wrapper.c     | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 wrapper.h     |  3 +++
 7 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 strbuf-safe.c

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d4b775953d..5943853219 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1327,6 +1327,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += sparse-index.o
 LIB_OBJS += split-index.o
 LIB_OBJS += stable-qsort.o
 LIB_OBJS += statinfo.o
+LIB_OBJS += strbuf-safe.o
 LIB_OBJS += strbuf.o
 LIB_OBJS += string-list.o
 LIB_OBJS += strmap.o
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index d86f2acd2b..368fdd00d5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ libgit_sources = [
   'split-index.c',
   'stable-qsort.c',
   'statinfo.c',
+  'strbuf-safe.c',
   'strbuf.c',
   'string-list.c',
   'strmap.c',
diff --git a/strbuf-safe.c b/strbuf-safe.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4a0707d63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/strbuf-safe.c
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#include "git-compat-util.h"
+#include "strbuf-safe.h"
+#include "banned-die.h"
+
+/*
+ * A safe version of ALLOC_GROW from git-compat-util.h and
+ * xrealloc() from wrapper.c.
+ */
+#define SAFE_ALLOC_GROW(x, nr, alloc) \
+	do { \
+		if ((nr) > alloc) { \
+			if (alloc_nr(alloc) < (nr)) \
+				alloc = (nr); \
+			else \
+				alloc = alloc_nr(alloc); \
+			if (srealloc((void **)&(x), alloc)) \
+				return MEMORY_ERROR; \
+		} \
+	} while (0)
+
+enum safe_result sstrbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra)
+{
+	int new_buf = !sb->alloc;
+	size_t new_len = st_add3(sb->len, extra, 1);
+	if (new_buf)
+		sb->buf = NULL;
+
+	SAFE_ALLOC_GROW(sb->buf, new_len, sb->alloc);
+
+	if (new_buf)
+		sb->buf[0] = '\0';
+
+	return SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/strbuf-safe.h b/strbuf-safe.h
index 3cf14545bb..f6adf7434b 100644
--- a/strbuf-safe.h
+++ b/strbuf-safe.h
@@ -85,4 +85,11 @@ struct strbuf {
 extern char strbuf_slopbuf[];
 #define STRBUF_INIT  { .buf = strbuf_slopbuf }
 
+enum safe_result {
+	SUCCESS = 0,
+	MEMORY_ERROR,
+};
+
+enum safe_result sstrbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra);
+
 #endif /* STRBUF_SAFE_H */
diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 44955669e8..d005666a07 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 #include "utf8.h"
 #include "date.h"
 
+#define STRBUF_DIE(f) die(_("unexpected error during string manipulation: %s"), f)
+
 bool starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix)
 {
 	for (; ; str++, prefix++)
@@ -105,13 +107,8 @@ void strbuf_attach(struct strbuf *sb, void *buf, size_t len, size_t alloc)
 
 void strbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra)
 {
-	int new_buf = !sb->alloc;
-	size_t new_len = st_add3(sb->len, extra, 1);
-	if (new_buf)
-		sb->buf = NULL;
-	ALLOC_GROW(sb->buf, new_len, sb->alloc);
-	if (new_buf)
-		sb->buf[0] = '\0';
+	if (sstrbuf_grow(sb, extra))
+		STRBUF_DIE("strbuf_grow");
 }
 
 void strbuf_trim(struct strbuf *sb)
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 97a29bda75..69ff9a8ff6 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -144,20 +144,28 @@ int xstrncmpz(const char *s, const char *t, size_t len)
 	return s[len] == '\0' ? 0 : 1;
 }
 
-void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
+int srealloc(void **ptr, size_t size)
 {
-	void *ret;
-
 	if (!size) {
-		free(ptr);
-		return xmalloc(0);
+		free(*ptr);
+		if ((*ptr = malloc(1)))
+			return 0;
+		return -1;
 	}
 
-	memory_limit_check(size, 0);
-	ret = realloc(ptr, size);
-	if (!ret)
+	if (safe_memory_limit_check(size, 0))
+		return -1;
+	if ((*ptr = realloc(*ptr, size)))
+		return 0;
+
+	return -1;
+}
+
+void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
+{
+	if (srealloc(&ptr, size))
 		die("Out of memory, realloc failed");
-	return ret;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
diff --git a/wrapper.h b/wrapper.h
index 69df68ee7a..956de2c534 100644
--- a/wrapper.h
+++ b/wrapper.h
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ char *xgetcwd(void);
 FILE *fopen_for_writing(const char *path);
 FILE *fopen_or_warn(const char *path, const char *mode);
 
+/* safe versions of helpers above. */
+int srealloc(void **ptr, size_t size);
+
 /*
  * Like strncmp, but only return zero if s is NUL-terminated and exactly len
  * characters long.  If it is not, consider it greater than t.
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-18 13:02 [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Create a 'safe' strbuf API Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-18 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] strbuf: add header for 'safe' API Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-21 21:18   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-23 19:25   ` Mark C. Chu-Carroll
2026-09-23 20:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-18 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] wrapper: initialize GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT proactively Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-18 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] wrapper: create safe_memory_limit_check() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-21 21:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-18 13:02 ` Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-09-21 21:29   ` [PATCH 4/6] strbuf-safe: add sstrbuf_grow() Junio C Hamano
2026-09-18 13:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] json-writer: include strbuf-safe.h Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-18 13:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] strbuf-safe: add init and release methods Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-09-21 21:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-21 22:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-19 15:23 ` [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Create a 'safe' strbuf API Phillip Wood
2026-09-23 19:46   ` Jeff King
2026-10-06 14:33     ` Derrick Stolee

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