From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:51:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZ5fZGyMj/lAuy7i@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211124.865ysie2br.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 02:55:20AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I do wonder re [2] and [3] if a simpler and self-contained/isolated
> patch in this area might not be a mirage of sorts. I.e. to know whether
> the approach in [2] and [3] is safe we basically have to reason about
> all the callers of this API anyway, which is what my larger series does.
After thinking on the various solutions, the original snippet I posted
to just re-initialize the struct in each run seems like the best fit[1].
It's true that this "args/argv" thing is the source of the actual
segfault, so any cleanup changes there would address that. But the root
of the confusion in setup_pager() is that it inits the child only once,
but then uses it multiple times. There could be similar confusion over
other fields in the struct (though I don't think there is currently). So
this seems like the most direct fix, and applies regardless of any
args/argv cleanup.
It would become moot if we start to die() on pager setup, which I'd be
in favor of. But I think we should fix the segfault bug first, which
allows us to worry about the larger behavior change separately.
-Peff
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YZhVA8DOjHu90gzs@coredump.intra.peff.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-24 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 19:40 [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-21 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 4:35 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 14:52 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-23 16:40 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-24 1:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 15:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] archive-tar: use our own cmd.buf in error message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:02 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:10 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 21:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 21:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:32 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:47 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:49 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] worktree: remove redundant NULL-ing of "cp.argv Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 15:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-24 6:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 6:12 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 5:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 1:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] worktree: stop being overly intimate with run_command() internals Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-26 9:48 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 16:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:46 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 17:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:41 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:30 ` Jeff King
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