[PATCH 2/3] revision: avoid out-of-bounds read/write on empty pathspec

Running t4216 with ASan results in it complaining of an out-of-bounds read in prepare_to_use_bloom_filter(). The issue is this code to strip a trailing slash:

  last_index = pi->len - 1;
  if (pi->match[last_index] == '/') {

because we have no guarantee that pi->len isn't zero. This can happen if the pathspec is ".", as we translate that to an empty string. And if that read of random memory does trigger the conditional, we'd then do an out-of-bounds write:

  path_alloc = xstrdup(pi->match);
  path_alloc[last_index] = '\0';

Let's make sure to check the length before subtracting. Note that for an empty pathspec, we'd end up bailing from the function a few lines later, which makes it tempting to just:

  if (!pi->len)
          return;

early here. But our code here is stripping a trailing slash, and we need to check for emptiness after stripping that slash, too. So we'd have two blocks, which would require repeating some cleanup code.

Instead, just skip the trailing-slash for an empty string. Setting last_index at all in the case is awkward since it will have a nonsense value (and it uses an "int", which is a too-small type for a string anyway). So while we're here, let's:

  - drop last_index entirely; it's only used in two spots right next to
    each other and writing out "pi->len - 1" in both is actually easier
    to follow

  - use xmemdupz() to duplicate the string. This is slightly more
    efficient, but more importantly makes the intent more clear by
    allocating the correct-sized substring in the first place. It also
    eliminates any question of whether path_alloc is as long as
    pi->match (which it would not be if pi->match has any embedded NULs,
    though in practice this is probably impossible).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Another variant is to actually stop assigning revs->bloom_filter_settings
so early, so that we don't have to clean it up. And then once we're sure
we're going to use it and have passed all of our early-return checks,
then assign it. But that conflicts with the get_bloom_filter_settings()
patch in:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/08479793c1274d5ee0f063578bb0f4d93c910fa9.1596480582.git.me@ttaylorr.com/

so I didn't go that way.

 revision.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)