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From: "Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Marc Branchaud" <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	"Matthias Aßhauer" <mha1993@live.de>,
	"Matthias Aßhauer" <mha1993@live.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] worktree: don't read out of bounds
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:19:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bc69c6b80ed42888327331b1567cecf7225ea7e.1784978348.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2187.git.1784978348.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20A=C3=9Fhauer?= <mha1993@live.de>

`worktree_basename` tries to read from memory before the passed `path`
string, if `path` is empty (or only consists of directory separators).
That results in unexpected nonsense data being returned to the caller,
which can lead to issues, such as `git worktree add ""` recursively
deleting the current working directory, including `.git`.

Stop reading out of bounds in these cases to avoid that behaviour.

This leads to `git worktree add ""` consistently exiting with the
message `BUG: How come '' becomes empty after sanitization?`, which is
still undesirable, but at least it doesn't result in data loss anymore.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/6346

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
---
 builtin/worktree.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/worktree.c b/builtin/worktree.c
index 4bc7b4f6e7..d8188035db 100644
--- a/builtin/worktree.c
+++ b/builtin/worktree.c
@@ -297,17 +297,21 @@ static void remove_junk_on_signal(int signo)
 static const char *worktree_basename(const char *path, int *olen)
 {
 	const char *name;
-	int len;
+	int len, len2;
 
-	len = strlen(path);
+	len2 = len = strlen(path);
 	while (len && is_dir_sep(path[len - 1]))
 		len--;
 
-	for (name = path + len - 1; name > path; name--)
-		if (is_dir_sep(*name)) {
-			name++;
-			break;
-		}
+	if(len) {
+		for (name = path + len - 1; name > path; name--)
+			if (is_dir_sep(*name)) {
+				name++;
+				break;
+			}
+	}
+	else
+		name = path + len2;
 
 	*olen = len;
 	return name;
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-25 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-25 11:19 [PATCH 0/2] worktree: Fix out of bounds read that causes data loss and reject invalid empty input in worktree add Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget
2026-07-25 11:19 ` Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-07-25 11:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] worktree: reject empty string Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget

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