Re: Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for git

> On 07/18, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>>
>> >> I'd be more worried about segfault we seem to be getting only on
>> >> Windows from this:
>> >>
>> >>     git -C parent grep -e "(1|2)d(3|4)" --recurse-submodules HEAD^ > actual
>> >>
>> >> in https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/254654195 by the way.
>> >
>> > Thanks for bringing that to my attention, (I do not follow the travis builds
>> > as closely, as there is no yelling email in my inbox).
>> >
>> > Windows builds on travis seem to be flaky.
>> > (sometimes they do not start), but there are also
>> > successful builds, including the -rc0, which may indicate
>> > bw/grep-recurse-submodules may be faulty on Windows.
>>
>> I can get valgrind complaints locally from
>>
>>     $ cd t && sh t7814-grep*.sh --valgrind -i -v
>>
>> so this may not be Windows only.  Can repo_worktree_path() return a NULL
>> in repo_read_gitmodules() to cause git_config_from_file() barf on a NULL
>> gitmodule_path?
>
> Yep that's most likely the cause.  The issue is if a repository doesn't
> have a worktree then what should a worktree path look like?
> repo_read_gitmodules() should check if there is a worktree before trying
> to load the gitmodules file.  I actually noticed this and have it fixed locally in
> another series I'm working on right now.  Looks like I may have to get
> that change in first though.  Thanks for finding this.