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Re: [GSoC PATCH] apply: report input location in binary and garbage patch errors

From
Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 17, 2026, 09:40 UTC
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<20260317002235.6121-1-jerrywang183@yahoo.com>
Jialong Wang <jerrywang183@yahoo.com> writes:
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> Several binary parsing paths in apply.c still report only line
> numbers. When more than one patch input is fed to a single
> invocation, that does not tell the user which input the line belongs
> to.
>
> Report the patch input location for corrupt and unrecognized binary
> patches, as well as the "patch with only garbage" case, and update
> the related tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jialong Wang <jerrywang183@yahoo.com>
> ---
>  apply.c                 | 10 ++++++----
>  t/t4100-apply-stat.sh   | 12 ++++++++++++
>  t/t4103-apply-binary.sh | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
> index 700809f3e6..84b4a569c5 100644
> --- a/apply.c
> +++ b/apply.c
> @@ -2110,8 +2110,8 @@ static struct fragment *parse_binary_hunk(struct apply_state *state,
>   corrupt:
>  	free(data);
>  	*status_p = -1;
> -	error(_("corrupt binary patch at line %d: %.*s"),
> -	      state->linenr-1, llen-1, buffer);
> +	error(_("corrupt binary patch at %s:%d: %.*s"),
> +	      state->patch_input_file, state->linenr-1, llen-1, buffer);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>
> @@ -2147,7 +2147,8 @@ static int parse_binary(struct apply_state *state,
>  	forward = parse_binary_hunk(state, &buffer, &size, &status, &used);
>  	if (!forward && !status)
>  		/* there has to be one hunk (forward hunk) */
> -		return error(_("unrecognized binary patch at line %d"), state->linenr-1);
> +		return error(_("unrecognized binary patch at %s:%d"),
> +			     state->patch_input_file, state->linenr-1);
>  	if (status)
>  		/* otherwise we already gave an error message */
>  		return status;
> @@ -2309,7 +2310,8 @@ static int parse_chunk(struct apply_state *state, char *buffer, unsigned long si
>  		 */
>  		if ((state->apply || state->check) &&
>  		    (!patch->is_binary && !metadata_changes(patch))) {
> -			error(_("patch with only garbage at line %d"), state->linenr);
> +			error(_("patch with only garbage at %s:%d"),
> +			      state->patch_input_file, state->linenr);
>  			return -128;
>  		}
>  	}
> diff --git a/t/t4100-apply-stat.sh b/t/t4100-apply-stat.sh
> index b3d93d8ed6..8393076469 100755
> --- a/t/t4100-apply-stat.sh
> +++ b/t/t4100-apply-stat.sh
> @@ -125,4 +125,16 @@ test_expect_success 'applying a patch with an invalid mode reports the input' '
>  	EOF
>  	test_cmp expect err
>  '
> +
> +test_expect_success 'applying a patch with only garbage reports the input' '
> +	cat >garbage.patch <<-\EOF &&
> +	diff --git a/f b/f
> +	--- a/f
> +	+++ b/f
> +	this is garbage
> +	EOF
> +	test_must_fail git apply garbage.patch 2>err &&
> +	echo "error: patch with only garbage at garbage.patch:4" >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect err
> +'
>  test_done
> diff --git a/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh b/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
> index 8e302a5a57..f2d41e06bc 100755
> --- a/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
> +++ b/t/t4103-apply-binary.sh
> @@ -179,6 +179,24 @@ test_expect_success PERL_TEST_HELPERS 'reject truncated binary diff' '
>  	" <patch >patch.trunc &&
>
>  	do_reset &&
> -	test_must_fail git apply patch.trunc
> +	test_must_fail git apply patch.trunc 2>err &&
> +	line=$(awk "END { print NR + 1 }" patch.trunc) &&
> +	grep "error: corrupt binary patch at patch.trunc:$line: " err
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'reject unrecognized binary diff' '
> +	cat >patch.bad <<-\EOF &&
> +	diff --git a/f b/f
> +	new file mode 100644
> +	index 0000000..7898192
> +	GIT binary patch
> +	bogus
> +	EOF
> +	test_must_fail git apply patch.bad 2>err &&
> +	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> +	error: unrecognized binary patch at patch.bad:4
> +	error: No valid patches in input (allow with "--allow-empty")
> +	EOF
> +	test_cmp expect err
>  '
>  test_done
> --
> 2.51.0
This patch looks good to me!
Thanks for picking this up.
- Karthik
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