From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:39:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-hash.c: always initialize dir_next pointer
Message-ID: <20111101223949.GA15578@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4EB070D2.4040709@kdbg.org>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:21:06PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Test t2021-checkout-overwrite.sh reveals a segfault in 'git add' on a
> case-insensitive file system when git is compiled with XMALLOC_POISON
> defined. The reason is that 2548183b (fix phantom untracked files when
> core.ignorecase is set) added a new member dir_next to struct cache_entry,
> but forgot to initialize it in all cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  You can also insert git config core.ignorecase true before the first
>  test script in t2021 to see the segfault.

Yikes, thanks.

-Peff