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[PATCH 101/104] test get_git_work_tree() return value for NULL

From
Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Date
May 26, 2010, 06:01 UTC
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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>

If we are in a git directory, get_git_work_tree() can return NULL. While trying to determine whether or not the given paths are outside the work tree, the following command would read from it anyways and trigger a segmentation fault.

 git diff / /
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 diff-no-index.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index aae8e7a..4cd9dac 100644
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -150,16 +150,14 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
 
 static int path_outside_repo(const char *path)
 {
-	/*
-	 * We have already done setup_git_directory_gently() so we
-	 * know we are inside a git work tree already.
-	 */
 	const char *work_tree;
 	size_t len;
 
 	if (!is_absolute_path(path))
 		return 0;
 	work_tree = get_git_work_tree();
+	if (!work_tree)
+		return 1;
 	len = strlen(work_tree);
 	if (strncmp(path, work_tree, len) ||
 	    (path[len] != '\0' && path[len] != '/'))
-- 
1.7.1.rc2.333.gb2668
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  2. 076/104 t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creationSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  3. 082/104 fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog onlySam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  4. 084/104 autocrlf: Make it work also for un-normalized repositoriesSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  5. 086/104 gitweb: Use @diff_opts while using format-patchSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  6. 087/104 hash_object: correction for zero length fileSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  7. 088/104 for-each-ref: Field with abbreviated objectnameSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  8. 090/104 Documentation: rebase -i ignores options passed to "git am"Sam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  9. 091/104 Documentation: fix minor inconsistencySam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  10. 092/104 Documentation/gitdiffcore: fix order in pickaxe descriptionSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  11. 093/104 post-receive-email: document command-line modeSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  12. 094/104 diff: fix coloring of extended diff headersSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  13. 095/104 Fix "Out of memory? mmap failed" for files larger than 4GB on WindowsSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  14. 096/104 start_command: close cmd->err descriptor when fork/spawn failsSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  15. 097/104 Fix checkout of large files to network shares on Windows XPSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  16. 098/104 mingw: use _commit to implement fsyncSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  17. 099/104 Recent MinGW has a C99 implementation of snprintf functionsSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  18. 100/104 Complete prototype of git_config_from_parameters()Sam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  19. 101/104 test get_git_work_tree() return value for NULLSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  20. 102/104 t7502-commit: fix spellingSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  21. 103/104 show-branch: use DEFAULT_ABBREV instead of 7Sam Vilain, May 26, 2010
  22. 104/104 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: clarify GMail section and SMTPSam Vilain, May 26, 2010
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