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[PATCH 5/5] mingw: use {gm,local}time_s as backend for {gm,local}time_r

From
Doan Tran Cong Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2019, 15:13 UTC
Message-ID
<2c39f9a04f98fc3d365c80ce57e8edce305846fb.1574867409.git.congdanhqx@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<cover.1574867409.git.congdanhqx@gmail.com>

Since Windows doesn't provide gmtime_r(3) and localtime_r(3), we're providing a compat version by using non-reentrant gmtime(3) and localtime(3) as backend. Then, we copy the returned data into the buffer.

By doing that, in case of failure, we will dereference a NULL pointer returned by gmtime(3), and localtime(3), and we always return a valid pointer instead of NULL.

Drop the memcpy(3) by using gmtime_s, and localtime_s as backend on Windows, and make sure we will return NULL in case of failure.

Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Doan Tran Cong Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index fe609239dd..7b21f4eee5 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "../git-compat-util.h"
 #include "win32.h"
 #include <conio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <wchar.h>
 #include "../strbuf.h"
 #include "../run-command.h"
@@ -986,16 +987,16 @@ int pipe(int filedes[2])
 
 struct tm *gmtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result)
 {
-	/* gmtime() in MSVCRT.DLL is thread-safe, but not reentrant */
-	memcpy(result, gmtime(timep), sizeof(struct tm));
-	return result;
+	if (gmtime_s(result, timep) == 0)
+		return result;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 struct tm *localtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result)
 {
-	/* localtime() in MSVCRT.DLL is thread-safe, but not reentrant */
-	memcpy(result, localtime(timep), sizeof(struct tm));
-	return result;
+	if (localtime_s(result, timep) == 0)
+		return result;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 char *mingw_getcwd(char *pointer, int len)
-- 
2.24.0.158.gd77a74f4dd.dirty
Previous: Doan Tran Cong DanhNext: Johannes Schindelin
Message 6 of 15 in “drop non-reentrant time usage”
  1. 0/5 drop non-reentrant time usageDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  2. 1/5 date.c::datestamp: switch to reentrant localtime_rDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  3. 2/5 date.c::time_to_tm_local: use reentrant localtime_r(3)Doan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  4. 3/5 date.c::time_to_tm: use reentrant gmtime_r(3)Doan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  5. 4/5 archive-zip: use reentrant localtime_r(3)Doan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  6. 5/5 mingw: use {gm,local}time_s as backend for {gm,local}time_rDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 27, 2019
  7. Johannes SchindelinNov 27, 2019
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 27, 2019
  9. Danh DoanNov 28, 2019
  10. Jeff KingNov 27, 2019
  11. Danh DoanNov 28, 2019
  12. 0/3 Phase out non-reentrant time functionsDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 28, 2019
  13. 1/3 date.c: switch to reentrant {gm,local}time_rDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 28, 2019
  14. 2/3 archive-zip.c: switch to reentrant localtime_rDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 28, 2019
  15. 3/3 mingw: use {gm,local}time_s as backend for {gm,local}time_rDoan Tran Cong Danh, Nov 28, 2019

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