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[PATCH] Fix segfault in fast-export

From
MMMike Mueller <mmueller@vigilantsw.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2010, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20100107035839.GM8510@samus.subfocal.net>
Hi all,

I'm working on a C++ static analyzer (Vigilant Sentry), and git is one of my test subjects. In git-1.6.6, I found a crash in the fast-export command:

The problem is in builtin-fast-export.c, function export_marks:
    f = fopen(file, "w");
    if (!f)
        error("Unable to open marks file %s for writing.", file);
   
    for (i = 0; i < idnums.size; i++) {
        if (deco->base && deco->base->type == 1) {
            mark = ptr_to_mark(deco->decoration);
            if (fprintf(f, ":%"PRIu32" %s\n", mark,
                sha1_to_hex(deco->base->sha1)) < 0) {
                e = 1;
                break;
            }
        }
        deco++;
    }
   
    e |= ferror(f);
    e |= fclose(f);
If fopen() fails, the error message is printed, but the function
doesn't exit.  The subsequent calls to fprintf and/or ferror will
fail because f is NULL.  A simple way to reproduce is to export
to a path you don't have write access to:
   
    $ git fast-export --export-marks=/foo
    error: Unable to open marks file /foo for writing.
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've attached a trivial patch that calls die_errno instead of error, so the program exits if f is NULL.

Regards, Mike

-- 
Mike Mueller
mmueller@vigilantsw.com

http://www.vigilantsw.com/


diff --git a/builtin-fast-export.c b/builtin-fast-export.c
index b0a4029..963e89b 100644
--- a/builtin-fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin-fast-export.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static void export_marks(char *file)
 
 	f = fopen(file, "w");
 	if (!f)
-		error("Unable to open marks file %s for writing.", file);
+		die_errno("Unable to open marks file %s for writing", file);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < idnums.size; i++) {
 		if (deco->base && deco->base->type == 1) {
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