From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:36:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sequencer: assign only free()able strings to gpg_sign
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"phillip.wood@talktalk.net" <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

>>----Original Message----
>>From: johannes.schindelin@gmx.de
>>Date: 22/12/2017 11:50 
>>To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
>>Cc: "Junio C Hamano"<gitster@pobox.com>, "Phillip Wood"<phillip.
> wood@dunelm.org.uk>, "Kaartic Sivaraam"<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
>>Subj: [PATCH] sequencer: assign only free()able strings to gpg_sign
>>
>>The gpg_sign member of the replay_opts structure is of type `char *`,
>>meaning that the sequencer deems the string to which gpg_sign points 
> to
>>be under its custody, i.e. it needs to be free()d by the sequencer.
>>
>>Therefore, let's only assign malloc()ed buffers to it.
>>
>>Reported-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
>>Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>>---
>>
>>	Phillip, if you want to squash these changes into your patches,
>>	I'd totally fine with that.
>>
>
> Hi Johannes, thanks for putting this together, the patch it fixes is 
> already in next so I think it'd be best to leave this one separate. I 
> wonder if it would be worth adding another test, see below.

Thanks, both.  Let's queue this on top as a fix-up.