delta/git.git, branch jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak

fmt-merge-msg: plug small leak of commit buffer

2015-04-20T21:38:07+00:00

A broken or badly formatted commit might not record author or
committer lines or we may not find a valid name on them.  The
function record_person() returned after calling get_commit_buffer()
without calling unuse_commit_buffer() on the memory it obtained in
such cases, potentially leaking it.

Helped-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

use get_commit_buffer everywhere

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

Each of these sites assumes that commit->buffer is valid.
Since they would segfault if this was not the case, they are
likely to be correct in practice. However, we can
future-proof them by using get_commit_buffer.

And as a side effect, we abstract away the final bare uses
of commit->buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

convert logmsg_reencode to get_commit_buffer

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

Like the callsites in the previous commit, logmsg_reencode
already falls back to read_sha1_file when necessary.
However, I split its conversion out into its own commit
because it's a bit more complex.

We return either:

  1. The original commit->buffer

  2. A newly allocated buffer from read_sha1_file

  3. A reencoded buffer (based on either 1 or 2 above).

while trying to do as few extra reads/allocations as
possible. Callers currently free the result with
logmsg_free, but we can simplify this by pointing them
straight to unuse_commit_buffer. This is a slight layering
violation, in that we may be passing a buffer from (3).
However, since the end result is to free() anything except
(1), which is unlikely to change, and because this makes the
interface much simpler, it's a reasonable bending of the
rules.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

use get_commit_buffer to avoid duplicate code

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

For both of these sites, we already do the "fallback to
read_sha1_file" trick. But we can shorten the code by just
using get_commit_buffer.

Note that the error cases are slightly different when
read_sha1_file fails. get_commit_buffer will die() if the
object cannot be loaded, or is a non-commit.

For get_sha1_oneline, this will almost certainly never
happen, as we will have just called parse_object (and if it
does, it's probably worth complaining about).

For record_author_date, the new behavior is probably better;
we notify the user of the error instead of silently ignoring
it. And because it's used only for sorting by author-date,
somebody examining a corrupt repo can fallback to the
regular traversal order.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriate

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

Some call sites check commit->buffer to see whether we have
a cached buffer, and if so, do some work with it. In the
long run we may want to switch these code paths to make
their decision on a different boolean flag (because checking
the cache may get a little more expensive in the future).
But for now, we can easily support them by converting the
calls to use get_cached_commit_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

provide helpers to access the commit buffer

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

Many sites look at commit->buffer to get more detailed
information than what is in the parsed commit struct.
However, we sometimes drop commit->buffer to save memory,
in which case the caller would need to read the object
afresh. Some callers do this (leading to duplicated code),
and others do not (which opens the possibility of a segfault
if somebody else frees the buffer).

Let's provide a pair of helpers, "get" and "unuse", that let
callers easily get the buffer. They will use the cached
buffer when possible, and otherwise load from disk using
read_sha1_file.

Note that we also need to add a "get_cached" variant which
returns NULL when we do not have a cached buffer. At first
glance this seems to defeat the purpose of "get", which is
to always provide a return value. However, some log code
paths actually use the NULL-ness of commit->buffer as a
boolean flag to decide whether to try printing the
commit. At least for now, we want to continue supporting
that use.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

provide a helper to set the commit buffer

2014-06-13T19:08:17+00:00

Right now this is just a one-liner, but abstracting it will
make it easier to change later.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

provide a helper to free commit buffer

2014-06-13T19:07:47+00:00

This converts two lines into one at each caller. But more
importantly, it abstracts the concept of freeing the buffer,
which will make it easier to change later.

Note that we also need to provide a "detach" mechanism for a
tricky case in index-pack. We are passed a buffer for the
object generated by processing the incoming pack. If we are
not using --strict, we just calculate the sha1 on that
buffer and return, leaving the caller to free it.  But if we
are using --strict, we actually attach that buffer to an
object, pass the object to the fsck functions, and then
detach the buffer from the object again (so that the caller
can free it as usual).  In this case, we don't want to free
the buffer ourselves, but just make sure it is no longer
associated with the commit.

Note that we are making the assumption here that the
attach/detach process does not impact the buffer at all
(e.g., it is never reallocated or modified). That holds true
now, and we have no plans to change that. However, as we
abstract the commit_buffer code, this dependency becomes
less obvious. So when we detach, let's also make sure that
we get back the same buffer that we gave to the
commit_buffer code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

sequencer: use logmsg_reencode in get_message

2014-06-12T17:29:43+00:00

This simplifies the code, as logmsg_reencode handles the
reencoding for us in a single call. It also means we learn
logmsg_reencode's trick of pulling the buffer from disk when
commit->buffer is NULL (we currently just silently return!).
It is doubtful this matters in practice, though, as
sequencer operations would not generally turn off
save_commit_buffer.

Note that we may be fixing a bug here. The existing code
does:

  if (same_encoding(to, from))
	  reencode_string(buf, to, from);

That probably should have been "!same_encoding".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

logmsg_reencode: return const buffer

2014-06-12T17:29:43+00:00

The return value from logmsg_reencode may be either a newly
allocated buffer or a pointer to the existing commit->buffer.
We would not want the caller to accidentally free() or
modify the latter, so let's mark it as const.  We can cast
away the constness in logmsg_free, but only once we have
determined that it is a free-able buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano