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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] merge-recursive: copy $GITHEAD strings
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 19:10:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk1jawoyl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111221655.GE10188@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:16:55 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> If $GITHEAD_1234abcd is set in the environment, we use its value as a
> "better branch name" in generating conflict markers. However, we pick
> these better names early in the process, and the return value from
> getenv() is not guaranteed to stay valid.
>
> Let's make a copy of the returned string. And to make memory management
> easier, let's just always return an allocated string from
> better_branch_name(), so we know that it must always be freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  builtin/merge-recursive.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Thanks.  Will queue.

>
> diff --git a/builtin/merge-recursive.c b/builtin/merge-recursive.c
> index 9b2f707c29..7545136c2a 100644
> --- a/builtin/merge-recursive.c
> +++ b/builtin/merge-recursive.c
> @@ -7,16 +7,16 @@
>  static const char builtin_merge_recursive_usage[] =
>  	"git %s <base>... -- <head> <remote> ...";
>  
> -static const char *better_branch_name(const char *branch)
> +static char *better_branch_name(const char *branch)
>  {
>  	static char githead_env[8 + GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1];
>  	char *name;
>  
>  	if (strlen(branch) != the_hash_algo->hexsz)
> -		return branch;
> +		return xstrdup(branch);
>  	xsnprintf(githead_env, sizeof(githead_env), "GITHEAD_%s", branch);
>  	name = getenv(githead_env);
> -	return name ? name : branch;
> +	return xstrdup(name ? name : branch);
>  }
>  
>  int cmd_merge_recursive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ int cmd_merge_recursive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	int i, failed;
>  	struct object_id h1, h2;
>  	struct merge_options o;
> +	char *better1, *better2;
>  	struct commit *result;
>  
>  	init_merge_options(&o);
> @@ -70,13 +71,17 @@ int cmd_merge_recursive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	if (get_oid(o.branch2, &h2))
>  		die(_("could not resolve ref '%s'"), o.branch2);
>  
> -	o.branch1 = better_branch_name(o.branch1);
> -	o.branch2 = better_branch_name(o.branch2);
> +	o.branch1 = better1 = better_branch_name(o.branch1);
> +	o.branch2 = better2 = better_branch_name(o.branch2);
>  
>  	if (o.verbosity >= 3)
>  		printf(_("Merging %s with %s\n"), o.branch1, o.branch2);
>  
>  	failed = merge_recursive_generic(&o, &h1, &h2, bases_count, bases, &result);
> +
> +	free(better1);
> +	free(better2);
> +
>  	if (failed < 0)
>  		return 128; /* die() error code */
>  	return failed;

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-12  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 22:14 [PATCH 0/6] getenv() timing fixes Jeff King
2019-01-11 22:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] get_super_prefix(): copy getenv() result Jeff King
2019-01-12  3:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-11 22:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] commit: copy saved " Jeff King
2019-01-12  3:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-12 10:26     ` Jeff King
2019-01-15 14:05       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-15 19:17         ` Jeff King
2019-01-15 19:25           ` Stefan Beller
2019-01-15 19:32             ` Jeff King
2019-01-16 14:06               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-11 22:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] config: make a copy of $GIT_CONFIG string Jeff King
2019-01-11 22:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] init: make a copy of $GIT_DIR string Jeff King
2019-01-12  3:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-11 22:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] merge-recursive: copy $GITHEAD strings Jeff King
2019-01-12  3:10   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-01-11 22:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] builtin_diff(): read $GIT_DIFF_OPTS closer to use Jeff King
2019-01-12 11:31 ` [PATCH 0/6] getenv() timing fixes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-12 18:51   ` Stefan Beller
2019-01-15 19:13     ` Jeff King
2019-01-15 19:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-15 19:38         ` Stefan Beller
2019-01-15 19:41         ` Jeff King
2019-01-15 19:47           ` Jeff King
2019-01-15 20:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-15 19:12   ` Jeff King

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