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patchapply: carefully strdup a possibly-NULL name

Subject: [PATCH] apply: carefully strdup a possibly-NULL name

## tl;dr

One message between Jun 21, 2013 and Jun 21, 2013. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Thomas Rast· Jun 21, 2013, 11:38 UTC · lore

2901bbe (apply: free patch->{def,old,new}_name fields, 2012-03-21) cleaned up the memory management of filenames in the patches, but forgot that find_name_traditional() can return NULL as a way of saying "I couldn't find a name".

That NULL unfortunately gets passed into xstrdup() next, resulting in a segfault. Use null_strdup() so as to safely propagate the null, which will let us emit the correct error message.

Reported-by: DevHC on #git
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
---
 builtin/apply.c         |  2 +-
 t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Show changes to 2 files +15 −1

builtin/apply.c, t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh

diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c
index faf8e30..0e9b631 100644
--- a/builtin/apply.c
+++ b/builtin/apply.c
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static void parse_traditional_patch(const char *first, const char *second, struc
 			patch->old_name = name;
 		} else {
 			patch->old_name = name;
-			patch->new_name = xstrdup(name);
+			patch->new_name = null_strdup(name);
 		}
 	}
 	if (!name)
diff --git a/t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh b/t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh
index 7c39843..1618a6d 100755
--- a/t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh
+++ b/t/t4111-apply-subdir.sh
@@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ test_expect_success 'apply --index from subdir of toplevel' '
 	test_cmp expected sub/dir/file
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'apply half-broken patch from subdir of toplevel' '
+	(
+		cd sub/dir &&
+		test_must_fail git apply <<-EOF
+		--- sub/dir/file
+		+++ sub/dir/file
+		@@ -1,0 +1,0 @@
+		--- file_in_root
+		+++ file_in_root
+		@@ -1,0 +1,0 @@
+		EOF
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'apply from .git dir' '
 	cp postimage expected &&
 	cp preimage .git/file &&
-- 
1.8.3.1.664.gae9f72a

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