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patch, 3 partsshortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH"

Subject: [PATCH 1/3] shortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH"

## tl;dr

One message between Nov 19, 2006 and Nov 19, 2006. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Johannes Schindelin· Nov 19, 2006, 16:28 UTC · lore

Annoyingly, it looked for the closing bracket in the author name instead of in the message, and then accessed the NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 builtin-shortlog.c |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Show changes to builtin-shortlog.c +9 −7
diff --git a/builtin-shortlog.c b/builtin-shortlog.c
index 48a2a0b..26212b0 100644
--- a/builtin-shortlog.c
+++ b/builtin-shortlog.c
@@ -108,13 +108,15 @@ static void insert_author_oneline(struct
 		free(buffer);
 
 	if (!strncmp(oneline, "[PATCH", 6)) {
-		char *eob = strchr(buffer, ']');
-
-		while (isspace(eob[1]) && eob[1] != '\n')
-			eob++;
-		if (eob - oneline < onelinelen) {
-			onelinelen -= eob - oneline;
-			oneline = eob;
+		char *eob = strchr(oneline, ']');
+
+		if (eob) {
+			while (isspace(eob[1]) && eob[1] != '\n')
+				eob++;
+			if (eob - oneline < onelinelen) {
+				onelinelen -= eob - oneline;
+				oneline = eob;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
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