Re: [PATCH] am: check return value of resolve_refdup before using hash
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- May 9, 2017, 03:58 UTC
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- <20170509035807.2q7bzhu7cs4fcqkb@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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- <f0ca65bf-aaf9-2cd6-1deb-c55c9e7a8fa3@web.de>
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 07:13:56PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
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> If resolve_refdup() fails it returns NULL and possibly leaves its hash
> output parameter untouched. Make sure to use it only if the function
> succeeded, in order to avoid accessing uninitialized memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
> builtin/am.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c
> index a95dd8b4e6..2c52c820aa 100644
> --- a/builtin/am.c
> +++ b/builtin/am.c
> @@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ static void am_abort(struct am_state *state)
> am_rerere_clear();
>
> curr_branch = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, curr_head.hash, NULL);
> - has_curr_head = !is_null_oid(&curr_head);
> + has_curr_head = curr_branch && !is_null_oid(&curr_head);
> if (!has_curr_head)
> hashcpy(curr_head.hash, EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN);This one looks good to me (and no interesting ripple effects from handling the error correctly :) ).
-Peff