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From: Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dstolee@microsoft.com, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: bug found on the new git maintenance builtin command
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:49:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914194938.GA4235@contrib-buster.localdomain> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

I found a minor bug when testing the new maintenance built-in command that was
introduced on 679768e2a1 (maintenance: create basic maintenance runner, 2020-08-25) submitted in [1]

When running `git maintenance` without argument it receives
a segmentation fault. I'm running git built on the current `seen` branch that is pointing
to bf3e2864f3 (Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-3' into seen, 2020-09-11)

I did a little investigation and it seems the command needs to check when no arguments
are passed to the cmd_maintanance() function and either quit with usage or redirect to man.

To reproduce the error, just run the `git maintenance` without any arguments

$ git maintenance
Segmentation fault

Analysign with GDB right before the SEGFAULT are thrown, we can see
the argv[1] pointing to NULL as follows: 

(gdb) list
1628    int cmd_maintenance(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
1629    {
1630        if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
1631            usage(builtin_maintenance_usage);
1632
1633        fprintf(stdout, "run");
1634        if (!strcmp(argv[1], "run"))
1635            return maintenance_run(argc - 1, argv + 1, prefix);
1636        if (!strcmp(argv[1], "start"))
1637            return maintenance_start();
(gdb) print argc
$5 = 1
(gdb) print argv[1]
$6 = 0x0

Hope all this information helps with the fixing it

[1] Patch submission can be found in:
https://public-inbox.org/git/aa961af387b7f458f75ad60b9a2a45da4bb43794.1599224956.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Regards,
Rafael Silva

             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14 19:49 Rafael Silva [this message]
2020-09-14 20:48 ` bug found on the new git maintenance builtin command Derrick Stolee
2020-09-14 20:55   ` Junio C Hamano

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