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Re: [regression] Re: [PATCHv2 10/15] drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emails

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 25, 2013, 01:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20130125010559.GA27657@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20130124232146.GA17458@google.com>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:21:46PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> This broke /etc/mailname handling.  Before:
> 
> 	$ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
> 	Jonathan Nieder <jrn@mailname.example.com> 1359069165 -0800
> 
> After:
> 
> 	$ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
> 	Jonathan Nieder <mailname.example.com> 1359069192 -0800

Ick. I wonder how that slipped through...I know I was testing with /etc/mailname when developing the series, because I'm on a Debian system. We do even check this code path in t7502 (if you have the AUTOIDENT prereq), but of course we can't verify the actual value automatically, because it could be anything. So I guess I just missed it during my manual testing, and the automated testing is insufficient to catch this particular breakage.

> > -	if (!fgets(buf, len, mailname)) {
> > +	if (strbuf_getline(buf, mailname, '\n') == EOF) {
> 
> This clears the strbuf.
Right. Definitely the problem.
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> How about something like this as a quick fix?
> 
> Reported-by: Mihai Rusu <dizzy@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
> index 73a06a1..cabd73f 100644
> --- a/ident.c
> +++ b/ident.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static void copy_gecos(const struct passwd *w, struct strbuf *name)
>  static int add_mailname_host(struct strbuf *buf)
>  {
>  	FILE *mailname;
> +	struct strbuf mailnamebuf = STRBUF_INIT;
>  
>  	mailname = fopen("/etc/mailname", "r");
>  	if (!mailname) {
> @@ -49,14 +50,17 @@ static int add_mailname_host(struct strbuf *buf)
>  				strerror(errno));
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> -	if (strbuf_getline(buf, mailname, '\n') == EOF) {
> +	if (strbuf_getline(&mailnamebuf, mailname, '\n') == EOF) {
>  		if (ferror(mailname))
>  			warning("cannot read /etc/mailname: %s",
>  				strerror(errno));
> +		strbuf_release(&mailnamebuf);
>  		fclose(mailname);
>  		return -1;
>  	}
>  	/* success! */
> +	strbuf_addbuf(buf, &mailnamebuf);
> +	strbuf_release(&mailnamebuf);
>  	fclose(mailname);
>  	return 0;
>  }
I think that is the only reasonable fix. Thanks for figuring it out.

We could expand the test in t7502 to check for "@" in the email, but it feels weirdly specific to this bug. Either way,

Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
(with a proper commit message, of course).
-Peff
Previous: Jonathan NiederNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 30 of 45 in “ident cleanups and bugfixes”
  1. 0/13 ident cleanups and bugfixesJeff King, May 18, 2012
  2. 01/13 ident: split setup_ident into separate functionsJeff King, May 18, 2012
  3. 02/13 http-push: do not access git_default_email directlyJeff King, May 18, 2012
  4. 03/13 fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_personJeff King, May 18, 2012
  5. 04/13 move identity config parsing to ident.cJeff King, May 18, 2012
  6. 05/13 move git_default_* variables to ident.cJeff King, May 18, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2012
  8. Jeff KingMay 21, 2012
  9. Jeff KingMay 21, 2012
  10. 06/13 format-patch: use default email for generating message idsJeff King, May 18, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2012
  12. Jeff KingMay 21, 2012
  13. 07/13 fmt_ident: drop IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME codeJeff King, May 18, 2012
  14. 08/13 ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_nameJeff King, May 18, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2012
  16. Jeff KingMay 21, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2012
  18. 0/15 ident cleanups git_default_nameJeff King, May 21, 2012
  19. 01/15 ident: split setup_ident into separate functionsJeff King, May 21, 2012
  20. 02/15 http-push: do not access git_default_email directlyJeff King, May 21, 2012
  21. 03/15 fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_personJeff King, May 21, 2012
  22. 04/15 move identity config parsing to ident.cJeff King, May 21, 2012
  23. 05/15 move git_default_* variables to ident.cJeff King, May 21, 2012
  24. 06/15 ident: trim trailing newline from /etc/mailnameJeff King, May 21, 2012
  25. 07/15 format-patch: use default email for generating message idsJeff King, May 21, 2012
  26. 08/15 fmt_ident: drop IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME codeJeff King, May 21, 2012
  27. 09/15 ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_nameJeff King, May 21, 2012
  28. 10/15 drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emailsJeff King, May 21, 2012
  29. [regression] Re: [PATCHv2 10/15] drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emailsJonathan Nieder, Jan 24, 2013
  30. Jeff KingJan 25, 2013
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2013
  32. Jeff KingJan 25, 2013
  33. 11/15 ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly messageJeff King, May 21, 2012
  34. 12/15 ident: use full dns names to generate email addressesJeff King, May 21, 2012
  35. 13/15 ident: use a dynamic strbuf in fmt_identJeff King, May 21, 2012
  36. 14/15 ident: trim whitespace from default name/emailJeff King, May 21, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2012
  38. Jeff KingMay 22, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2012
  40. 15/15 format-patch: refactor get_patch_filenameJeff King, May 21, 2012
  41. 09/13 drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emailsJeff King, May 18, 2012
  42. 10/13 ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly messageJeff King, May 18, 2012
  43. 11/13 ident: use full dns names to generate email addressesJeff King, May 18, 2012
  44. 12/13 ident: use a dynamic strbuf in fmt_identJeff King, May 18, 2012
  45. 13/13 format-patch: refactor get_patch_filenameJeff King, May 18, 2012

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