Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc' into maint

* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
  compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
index e85f0fd8d8..cf442a97f8 100644
--- a/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/exec_cmd.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "exec_cmd.h"
 #include "quote.h"
+#include "argv-array.h"
 #define MAX_ARGS	32
 
 static const char *argv_exec_path;
@@ -107,32 +108,25 @@ void setup_path(void)
 	strbuf_release(&new_path);
 }
 
-const char **prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv)
+const char **prepare_git_cmd(struct argv_array *out, const char **argv)
 {
-	int argc;
-	const char **nargv;
-
-	for (argc = 0; argv[argc]; argc++)
-		; /* just counting */
-	nargv = xmalloc(sizeof(*nargv) * (argc + 2));
-
-	nargv[0] = "git";
-	for (argc = 0; argv[argc]; argc++)
-		nargv[argc + 1] = argv[argc];
-	nargv[argc + 1] = NULL;
-	return nargv;
+	argv_array_push(out, "git");
+	argv_array_pushv(out, argv);
+	return out->argv;
 }
 
 int execv_git_cmd(const char **argv) {
-	const char **nargv = prepare_git_cmd(argv);
-	trace_argv_printf(nargv, "trace: exec:");
+	struct argv_array nargv = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
+
+	prepare_git_cmd(&nargv, argv);
+	trace_argv_printf(nargv.argv, "trace: exec:");
 
 	/* execvp() can only ever return if it fails */
-	sane_execvp("git", (char **)nargv);
+	sane_execvp("git", (char **)nargv.argv);
 
 	trace_printf("trace: exec failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 
-	free(nargv);
+	argv_array_clear(&nargv);
 	return -1;
 }