From: "Jonas Thiel" <jonas.lierschied@gmx.de>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>,
"Heiko Voigt" <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Aw: Re: Re: Homebrew and Git
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:23:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-7a55c197-21af-4808-9919-6fc26bdcece2-1474536212197@3capp-gmx-bs75> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160921084841.phq7cfbagi5k7ku4@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Sorry for my late reply. Thanks for your support -- I really appreciate that.
@Jeff: Unfortunately, I do not know how to implement the patch you provided. Can you explain how to do that?
Thanks and best regards,
Jonas
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. September 2016 um 10:48 Uhr
> Von: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> An: "John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>
> Cc: "Heiko Voigt" <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>, "Jonas Thiel" <jonas.lierschied@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
> Betreff: Re: Re: Homebrew and Git
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:15:55PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
>
> > > BTW, here is the callstack inlined from the crashreport:
> > >
> > > bsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff840db41c _platform_strchr$VARIANT$Haswell + 28
> > > 1 git 0x000000010ba1d3f4 ident_default_email + 801
> > > 2 git 0x000000010ba1d68f fmt_ident + 66
> > > 3 git 0x000000010ba4b495 files_log_ref_write + 175
> > > 4 git 0x000000010ba4b0a6 commit_ref_update + 106
> > > 5 git 0x000000010ba4c3a8 ref_transaction_commit + 468
> > > 6 git 0x000000010b994dd8 s_update_ref + 271
> > > 7 git 0x000000010b994556 fetch_refs + 1969
> > > 8 git 0x000000010b9935f2 fetch_one + 1913
> > > 9 git 0x000000010b992bc4 cmd_fetch + 549
> > > 10 git 0x000000010b9666c4 handle_builtin + 478
> > > 11 git 0x000000010b96602f main + 376
> > > 12 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff834ef5ad start + 1
> > >
> > > Maybe someone else has an idea what might be causing this...
> >
> > The only strchr I can see that could be called here is in
> > canonical_name(), where it's called with addrinfo::ai_canonname.
>
> There's one in add_domainname(), too, but it can never be NULL (we could
> walk off the end of the buffer, but only if gethostname() lies to us
> about its result code, which seems unlikely). So I agree it's probably
> the call in canonical_name().
>
> > Searching for OS X and ai_canonname, leads me straight back to this
> > list, although 7 years ago! I think ident.c needs a fix similar to
> > commit 3e8a00a (daemon.c: fix segfault on OS X, 2009-04-27); from the
> > commit message there:
> >
> > On OS X (and maybe other unices), getaddrinfo(3) returns NULL
> > in the ai_canonname field if it's called with an IP address for
> > the hostname.
>
> Interesting. We are already prepared for failure from getaddrinfo()
> here, so probably:
>
> diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
> index e20a772..d17b5bd 100644
> --- a/ident.c
> +++ b/ident.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int canonical_name(const char *host, struct strbuf *out)
> memset (&hints, '\0', sizeof (hints));
> hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
> if (!getaddrinfo(host, NULL, &hints, &ai)) {
> - if (ai && strchr(ai->ai_canonname, '.')) {
> + if (ai && ai->ai_canonname && strchr(ai->ai_canonname, '.')) {
> strbuf_addstr(out, ai->ai_canonname);
> status = 0;
> }
>
> would be sufficient. Jonas, can you see if that patch helps?
>
> -Peff
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-18 15:50 Homebrew and Git Jonas Thiel
2016-09-20 11:02 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-09-20 11:07 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-09-20 19:15 ` John Keeping
2016-09-21 8:48 ` Jeff King
2016-09-22 9:23 ` Jonas Thiel [this message]
2016-09-22 15:57 ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-23 4:07 ` Jeff King
2016-09-23 4:37 ` [PATCH] ident: handle NULL ai_canonname Jeff King
2016-09-20 18:45 ` Aw: Re: Homebrew and Git Jonas Thiel
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