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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-status segmentation fault in master / OS X
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:58:54 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf1001200458v436a8adeq5cfc6753900e6c0c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57518fd11001200243v416aa5f9o37a3b5b92bef3b57@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/20/10, Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:
>  One thing I wondered about from that commit - shouldn't the "buf =
>  xmalloc(size);" on dir.c:252 be "buf = xmalloc(size+1);" ?  I haven't
>  really looked at the program flow there, so may be wrong...

You would also need to revert 66c3fa0 (Avoid writing to buffer in
add_excludes_from_file_1() - 2009-08-20) and see if it fixes the
problem. I think there is a potential memory corruption at "buf[i - (i
&& buf[i-1] == '\r')] = 0;". Don't know if it is the cause though.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19 17:59 git-status segmentation fault in master / OS X Jonathan del Strother
2010-01-20  0:41 ` Jeff King
2010-01-20  0:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-20 10:43     ` Jonathan del Strother
2010-01-20 12:58       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2010-01-20 14:09         ` [PATCH] Fix memory corruption when .gitignore does not end by \n Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-01-20 19:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-21  1:38             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-21  6:08               ` Jonathan del Strother
2010-01-21  6:48               ` Junio C Hamano

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