From: Eric Sunshine Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:33:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Karthik Nayak wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Karthik Nayak wrote: >> @@ -138,10 +140,9 @@ int parse_ref_filter_atom(const char *atom, const char *ep) >> * shouldn't be used for checking against the valid_atom >> * table. >> */ >> - const char *formatp = strchr(sp, ':'); >> - if (!formatp || ep < formatp) >> - formatp = ep; >> - if (len == formatp - sp && !memcmp(valid_atom[i].name, sp, len)) >> + arg = memchr(sp, ':', ep - sp); >> + if ((!arg || len == arg - sp) && >> + !memcmp(valid_atom[i].name, sp, len)) >> break; >> } > > Also having a look at this, this breaks the previous error checking we > had at parse_ref_filter_atom(). > e.g: git for-each-ref --format="%(refnameboo)" would not throw an error. > > I think the code needs to be changed to: > > - if ((!arg || len == arg - sp) && > + if ((arg || len == ep - sp) && > + (!arg || len == arg - sp) && For completeness, for people reading the mailing list archive, a couple alternate fixes were presented elsewhere[1], with a personal bias toward: arg = memchr(...); if (!arg) arg = ep; if (len == arg - sp && !memcmp(...)) ... [1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-ref-filter-c-don-t-stomp-on-memory-tp7647432p7647433.html