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[PATCH 1/5] tree-walk: copy object ID before use

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Jan 10, 2019, 04:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20190110042551.915769-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To
<20190110042551.915769-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

In a future commit, the pointer returned by tree_entry_extract will point into the struct tree_desc, causing its lifetime to be bound to that of the struct tree_desc itself. To ensure this code path keeps working, copy the object_id into a local variable so that it lives long enough.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 tree-walk.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tree-walk.c b/tree-walk.c
index 79bafbd1a2..1e040fc20e 100644
--- a/tree-walk.c
+++ b/tree-walk.c
@@ -498,10 +498,10 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_
 	int namelen = strlen(name);
 	while (t->size) {
 		const char *entry;
-		const struct object_id *oid;
+		struct object_id oid;
 		int entrylen, cmp;
 
-		oid = tree_entry_extract(t, &entry, mode);
+		oidcpy(&oid, tree_entry_extract(t, &entry, mode));
 		entrylen = tree_entry_len(&t->entry);
 		update_tree_entry(t);
 		if (entrylen > namelen)
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_
 		if (cmp < 0)
 			break;
 		if (entrylen == namelen) {
-			oidcpy(result, oid);
+			oidcpy(result, &oid);
 			return 0;
 		}
 		if (name[entrylen] != '/')
@@ -520,10 +520,10 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_
 		if (!S_ISDIR(*mode))
 			break;
 		if (++entrylen == namelen) {
-			oidcpy(result, oid);
+			oidcpy(result, &oid);
 			return 0;
 		}
-		return get_tree_entry(oid, name + entrylen, result, mode);
+		return get_tree_entry(&oid, name + entrylen, result, mode);
 	}
 	return -1;
 }
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  1. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2019
  2. tg/checkout-no-overlay, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2019, #01; Mon, 7)Thomas Gummerer, Jan 8, 2019
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2019
  4. ag/sequencer-reduce-rewriting-todo Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2019, #01; Mon, 7)Alban Gruin, Jan 8, 2019
  5. sb/more-repo-in-api, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2019, #01; Mon, 7)Jonathan Tan, Jan 8, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2019
  7. Stefan BellerJan 9, 2019
  8. Martin ÅgrenJan 9, 2019
  9. Martin ÅgrenJan 9, 2019
  10. brian m. carlsonJan 10, 2019
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2019
  12. Martin ÅgrenJan 10, 2019
  13. 0/5 tree-walk object_id refactorbrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  14. 1/5 tree-walk: copy object ID before usebrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  15. 2/5 match-trees: compute buffer offset correctly when splicingbrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  16. 3/5 match-trees: use hashcpy to splice treesbrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  17. Jeff KingJan 10, 2019
  18. brian m. carlsonJan 10, 2019
  19. Jeff KingJan 11, 2019
  20. Jeff KingJan 11, 2019
  21. brian m. carlsonJan 14, 2019
  22. Jeff KingJan 14, 2019
  23. 4/5 tree-walk: store object_id in a separate memberbrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  24. Jeff KingJan 10, 2019
  25. brian m. carlsonJan 10, 2019
  26. 5/5 cache: make oidcpy always copy GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytesbrian m. carlson, Jan 10, 2019
  27. Jeff KingJan 10, 2019
  28. Jeff KingJan 10, 2019
  29. brian m. carlsonJan 11, 2019
  30. Jeff KingJan 11, 2019
  31. 0/5 tree-walk object_id refactorbrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  32. 1/5 tree-walk: copy object ID before usebrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  33. 2/5 match-trees: compute buffer offset correctly when splicingbrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  34. 4/5 tree-walk: store object_id in a separate memberbrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  35. 5/5 cache: make oidcpy always copy GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytesbrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  36. 3/5 match-trees: use hashcpy to splice treesbrian m. carlson, Jan 15, 2019
  37. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2019
  38. Jeff KingJan 9, 2019
  39. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2019
  40. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2019
  41. Stefan BellerJan 10, 2019

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