commit: record buffer length in cache

Most callsites which use the commit buffer try to use the
cached version attached to the commit, rather than
re-reading from disk. Unfortunately, that interface provides
only a pointer to the NUL-terminated buffer, with no
indication of the original length.

For the most part, this doesn't matter. People do not put
NULs in their commit messages, and the log code is happy to
treat it all as a NUL-terminated string. However, some code
paths do care. For example, when checking signatures, we
want to be very careful that we verify all the bytes to
avoid malicious trickery.

This patch just adds an optional "size" out-pointer to
get_commit_buffer and friends. The existing callers all pass
NULL (there did not seem to be any obvious sites where we
could avoid an immediate strlen() call, though perhaps with
some further refactoring we could).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index e1c25692f1..61559a9d45 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -54,20 +54,20 @@ void parse_commit_or_die(struct commit *item);
  * Associate an object buffer with the commit. The ownership of the
  * memory is handed over to the commit, and must be free()-able.
  */
-void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *, void *buffer);
+void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *, void *buffer, unsigned long size);
 
 /*
  * Get any cached object buffer associated with the commit. Returns NULL
  * if none. The resulting memory should not be freed.
  */
-const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *);
+const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *, unsigned long *size);
 
 /*
  * Get the commit's object contents, either from cache or by reading the object
  * from disk. The resulting memory should not be modified, and must be given
  * to unuse_commit_buffer when the caller is done.
  */
-const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *);
+const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *, unsigned long *size);
 
 /*
  * Tell the commit subsytem that we are done with a particular commit buffer.
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void free_commit_buffer(struct commit *);
  * Disassociate any cached object buffer from the commit, but do not free it.
  * The buffer (or NULL, if none) is returned.
  */
-const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *);
+const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *, unsigned long *sizep);
 
 /* Find beginning and length of commit subject. */
 int find_commit_subject(const char *commit_buffer, const char **subject);