git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] config_set_multivar(): disallow newlines in keys

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 20, 2007, 01:25 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0701200224180.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To
<7v8xfyczxi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
This will no longer work:

$ git repo-config 'key.with newline' some-value

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
	On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
	
	> I think the current repo-config handles sane cases alright, but
	> it is still fragile in error cases.  For example:
	> 
	> 	$ git repo-config 'foo.bar=bzz
	>           baz.boo' foobar
	> 
	> does not currently barf, but results in a corrupted config file.
	Now it barfs.
 config.c               |    5 +++++
 t/t1300-repo-config.sh |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index b6082f5..c08c668 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -661,6 +661,11 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* key, const char* value,
 				goto out_free;
 			}
 			c = tolower(c);
+		} else if (c == '\n') {
+			fprintf(stderr, "invalid key (newline): %s\n", key);
+			free(store.key);
+			ret = 1;
+			goto out_free;
 		}
 		store.key[i] = c;
 	}
diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
index 60acdd3..eb7455b 100755
--- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
@@ -418,5 +418,11 @@ EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'quoting' 'cmp .git/config expect'
 
+test_expect_failure 'key with newline' 'git repo-config key.with\\\
+newline 123'
+
+test_expect_success 'value with newline' 'git repo-config key.sub value.with\\\
+newline'
+
 test_done
 
-- 
1.5.0.rc1.g5a400-dirty
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 33 of 54 in “[RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJan 15, 2007
  2. Eric WongJan 15, 2007
  3. Jakub NarebskiJan 15, 2007
  4. Eric WongJan 15, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceJan 15, 2007
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 15, 2007
  7. Eric WongJan 15, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2007
  9. Nikolai WeibullJan 15, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2007
  11. Nikolai WeibullJan 15, 2007
  12. Jakub NarebskiJan 15, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2007
  14. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2007
  15. Jakub NarebskiJan 16, 2007
  16. Nikolai WeibullJan 16, 2007
  17. Jakub NarebskiJan 16, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2007
  19. Jakub NarebskiJan 16, 2007
  20. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2007
  21. Jakub NarebskiJan 17, 2007
  22. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2007
  23. Jakub NarebskiJan 17, 2007
  24. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2007
  25. Jakub NarebskiJan 17, 2007
  26. Jakub NarebskiJan 19, 2007
  27. Jakub NarebskiJan 19, 2007
  28. Johannes SchindelinJan 19, 2007
  29. Jakub NarebskiJan 19, 2007
  30. Johannes SchindelinJan 20, 2007
  31. Jakub NarebskiJan 20, 2007
  32. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2007
  33. config_set_multivar(): disallow newlines in keysJohannes Schindelin, Jan 20, 2007
  34. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2007
  35. Alex RiesenJan 22, 2007
  36. Johannes SchindelinJan 22, 2007
  37. Alex RiesenJan 22, 2007
  38. Johannes SchindelinJan 22, 2007
  39. Alex RiesenJan 22, 2007
  40. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2007
  41. Alex RiesenJan 23, 2007
  42. Documentation/config.txt: Document config file syntax betterJakub Narebski, Jan 20, 2007
  43. Documentation/config.txt: Document config file syntax betterJakub Narebski, Jan 22, 2007
  44. 2/1 Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection nameJakub Narebski, Jan 24, 2007
  45. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2007
  46. Nikolai WeibullJan 17, 2007
  47. Jakub NarebskiJan 17, 2007
  48. Nikolai WeibullJan 17, 2007
  49. Jakub NarebskiJan 17, 2007
  50. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2007
  51. Eric WongJan 16, 2007
  52. Eric WongJan 16, 2007
  53. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2007
  54. Eric WongJan 16, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.