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[PATCH 6/7] trailer: handle NULL value when parsing trailer-specific config

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2023, 07:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20231207071132.GF1276005@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20231207071030.GA1275835@coredump.intra.peff.net>

When parsing the "key", "command", and "cmd" trailer config, we just make a copy of the value string. If we see an implicit bool like:

  [trailer "foo"]
  key

we'll segfault trying to copy a NULL pointer. We can fix this with the usual config_error_nonbool() check.

I split this out from the other vanilla cases, because at first glance it looks like a better fix here would be to move the NULL check out of the switch statement. But it would change the behavior of other keys like trailer.*.ifExists, where an implicit bool is interpreted as EXISTS_DEFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 trailer.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/trailer.c b/trailer.c
index b0e2ec224a..e4b08ed267 100644
--- a/trailer.c
+++ b/trailer.c
@@ -553,16 +553,22 @@ static int git_trailer_config(const char *conf_key, const char *value,
 	case TRAILER_KEY:
 		if (conf->key)
 			warning(_("more than one %s"), conf_key);
+		if (!value)
+			return config_error_nonbool(conf_key);
 		conf->key = xstrdup(value);
 		break;
 	case TRAILER_COMMAND:
 		if (conf->command)
 			warning(_("more than one %s"), conf_key);
+		if (!value)
+			return config_error_nonbool(conf_key);
 		conf->command = xstrdup(value);
 		break;
 	case TRAILER_CMD:
 		if (conf->cmd)
 			warning(_("more than one %s"), conf_key);
+		if (!value)
+			return config_error_nonbool(conf_key);
 		conf->cmd = xstrdup(value);
 		break;
 	case TRAILER_WHERE:
-- 
2.43.0.664.ga12c899002
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  2. 1/7 config: handle NULL value when parsing non-boolsJeff King, Dec 7, 2023
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  11. 6/7 trailer: handle NULL value when parsing trailer-specific configJeff King, Dec 7, 2023
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