[RFC PATCH] grep: provide sane default to grep_source struct

[Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>]

grep_buffer creates a struct grep_source gs and calls grep_source()
with it. However, gs.name is null, which eventually produces a
segmentation fault in
grep_source()->grep_source_1()->show_line() when grep_opt.status_only is
not set.

This seems to be unreachable from existing commands but is reachable in
the event that someone rolls their own revision walk and neglects to set
rev_info->grep_filter->status_only. Conceivably, someone might want to
print all changed lines of all commits which match some regex.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
---
Hiya,

I ran into this issue while I was working on a tutorial on rolling your
own revision walk. I didn't want to print all the lines associated with
a matching change, but it didn't seem good that a seemingly-sane
grep_filter config was segfaulting.

I don't know if adding a placeholder name is the right answer (hence RFC
patch).

Jonathan Nieder proposed alternatively adding some check to grep_source()
to ensure that if opt->status_only is unset, gs->name must be non-NULL
(and yell about it if not), as well as some extra comments indicating
what assumptions are made about the data coming into functions like
grep_source(). I'm fine with that as well (although I'm not sure it
makes sense semantically to require a name which the user probably can't
easily set, or else ban the user from printing LOC during grep). Mostly
I'm happy with any solution besides a segfault with no error logging :)

Thanks in advance for everyone's thoughts.
Emily


 grep.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
index 0d50598acd..fd84454faf 100644
--- a/grep.c
+++ b/grep.c
@@ -2045,7 +2045,7 @@ int grep_buffer(struct grep_opt *opt, char *buf, unsigned long size)
 	struct grep_source gs;
 	int r;
 
-	grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_BUF, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_BUF, _("(in memory)"), NULL, NULL);
 	gs.buf = buf;
 	gs.size = size;
 
-- 
2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog