Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] gpg-interface: do not hardcode the key string len anymore

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

Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com> writes:

> gnupg does print the keyid followed by a space and the signer comes
> next. The same pattern is also used in gpgsm, but there the key length
> would be 40 instead of 16. Instead of hardcoding the expected length,
> find the first space and calculate it.
> Input that does not match the expected format will be ignored now,
> before we jumped to found+17 which might have been behind the end of an
> unexpected string.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
> ---
>  gpg-interface.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Very nice.


> diff --git a/gpg-interface.c b/gpg-interface.c
> index 699651fd9..93bd0fb32 100644
> --- a/gpg-interface.c
> +++ b/gpg-interface.c
> @@ -89,10 +89,11 @@ static void parse_gpg_output(struct signature_check *sigc)
>  		sigc->result = sigcheck_gpg_status[i].result;
>  		/* The trust messages are not followed by key/signer information */
>  		if (sigc->result != 'U') {
> -			sigc->key = xmemdupz(found, 16);
> +			next = strchrnul(found, ' ');
> +			sigc->key = xmemdupz(found, next - found);
>  			/* The ERRSIG message is not followed by signer information */
> -			if (sigc-> result != 'E') {
> -				found += 17;
> +			if (*next && sigc-> result != 'E') {
> +				found = next + 1;
>  				next = strchrnul(found, '\n');
>  				sigc->signer = xmemdupz(found, next - found);
>  			}