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From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup_revisions(): do not access outside argv
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:02:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A159720.3020103@intra2net.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090521041812.GE8091@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> Having just fixed a segfault in the GIT_TRACE code caused by a
> non-terminated argv generated by the alias code, I think I would prefer
> that we just consistently do the NULL-termination. You are otherwise
> creating a maintenance pitfall when somebody later passes the value to
> unsuspecting code.

Speaking of that, there is also one piece of code in diff.c that doesn't do
NULL-termination after a readlink() call (which never NULL-terminates).
The current use is 100% fine, though the same maintenance
argument might apply here, too. Wondering why the buffer
is allocated as PATH_MAX +1. Hmm.

Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-20  8:08 [PATCH] setup_revisions(): do not access outside argv Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-05-20  8:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-20  8:23   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-05-21  1:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-21  2:38       ` Miles Bader
2009-05-21  2:41       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-05-21  4:18       ` Jeff King
2009-05-21 18:02         ` Thomas Jarosch [this message]
2009-05-22  7:56           ` Jeff King
2009-05-22  8:02             ` Jeff King
2009-05-22 14:23               ` Thomas Jarosch
2009-05-22 15:33               ` Brandon Casey
2009-05-22 15:34                 ` Jeff King
2009-05-25 10:46                   ` [PATCH] convert bare readlink to strbuf_readlink Jeff King
2009-05-25 22:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]               ` <20090602195605.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
2009-06-02 13:57                 ` [PATCH] setup_revisions(): do not access outside argv Jeff King

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