[Outreachy PATCH v5 1/2] gpg-interface: do not use misdesigned strbuf_split*()
- From
Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 22, 2025, 12:40 UTC
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- <df8fbbd3a50748fd974083b6bbb07ffca91be465.1761135129.git.belkid98@gmail.com>
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- <cover.1761135129.git.belkid98@gmail.com>
In get_ssh_finger_print(), the output of the `ssh-keygen` command is put into `fingerprint_stdout` strbuf. The string in `fingerprint_stdout` is then split into up to 3 strbufs using strbuf_split_max(). However they are not modified after the split thereby not making use of the strbuf API as the fingerprint token is merely returned as a char * and not a strbuf. Hence they do not need to be strbufs.
Simplify the process of retrieving and returning the desired token by using strchr() to isolate the token and xmemdupz() to return a copy of the token. This removes the roundabout way of splitting the string into strbufs just to return the token.
Reported-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Helped-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> Signed-off-by: Olamide Caleb Bello <belkid98@gmail.com> --- gpg-interface.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gpg-interface.c b/gpg-interface.c index 2f4f0e32cb..917081abac 100644 --- a/gpg-interface.c +++ b/gpg-interface.c @@ -821,8 +821,7 @@ static char *get_ssh_key_fingerprint(const char *signing_key) struct child_process ssh_keygen = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT; int ret = -1; struct strbuf fingerprint_stdout = STRBUF_INIT; - struct strbuf **fingerprint; - char *fingerprint_ret; + char *fingerprint_ret, *begin, *delim; const char *literal_key = NULL; /* @@ -845,13 +844,17 @@ static char *get_ssh_key_fingerprint(const char *signing_key) die_errno(_("failed to get the ssh fingerprint for key '%s'"), signing_key); - fingerprint = strbuf_split_max(&fingerprint_stdout, ' ', 3); - if (!fingerprint[1]) - die_errno(_("failed to get the ssh fingerprint for key '%s'"), + begin = fingerprint_stdout.buf; + delim = strchr(begin, ' '); + if (!delim) + die(_("failed to get the ssh fingerprint for key %s"), signing_key); - - fingerprint_ret = strbuf_detach(fingerprint[1], NULL); - strbuf_list_free(fingerprint); + begin = delim + 1; + delim = strchr(begin, ' '); + if (!delim) + die(_("failed to get the ssh fingerprint for key %s"), + signing_key); + fingerprint_ret = xmemdupz(begin, delim - begin); strbuf_release(&fingerprint_stdout); return fingerprint_ret; }
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