Re: [PATCH] builtin: submodule--helper: Add allocation check of module_cb structure objects may be helpful in case of allocation failure

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Li kunyu <kunyu@nfschina.com> writes:

> The purpose of using temp is unknown, but adding an allocation failure
> report should be helpful.

Yuck.  Use of xmalloc() may be more appropriate.

Use of BUG() in a context like this is never the right thing to do.
BUG() is reserved for cases where the condition should NEVER hold
true in a correctly written program, and even for a correctly
written program, malloc() can fail after you allocated too much
memory from the heap.

>
> Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@nfschina.com>
> ---
>  builtin/submodule--helper.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> index b63f420ece..2e379623ea 100644
> --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> @@ -1077,6 +1077,9 @@ static void submodule_summary_callback(struct diff_queue_struct *q,
>  		if (!S_ISGITLINK(p->one->mode) && !S_ISGITLINK(p->two->mode))
>  			continue;
>  		temp = (struct module_cb*)malloc(sizeof(struct module_cb));
> +		if (!temp)
> +			 BUG("The module_cb structure object fails to be allocated and the program may terminate abnormally");
> +
>  		temp->mod_src = p->one->mode;
>  		temp->mod_dst = p->two->mode;
>  		temp->oid_src = p->one->oid;