Re: [PATCH] submodule_init: die cleanly on submodules without url defined

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2017, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kb9hsvrzc=RnhhyJf-tTnr9rTfV-TQWimYFGwU_Kuew9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170425005746.tulvexabonlexah3@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> When we init a submodule, we try to die when it has no URL
> defined:
>
>   url = xstrdup(sub->url);
>   if (!url)
>           die(...);
>
> But that's clearly nonsense. xstrdup() will never return
> NULL, and if sub->url is NULL, we'll segfault.
>
> These two bits of code need to be flipped, so we check
> sub->url before looking at it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---

Makes sense. At the time I assumed xstrdup had a _or_null behavior (i.e. if NULL goes in, it is not duplicated, but rather return NULL)

Thanks, Stefan