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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-05-21 19:10:14 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-05-22 09:08:14 -0700
commit060d4bb3d6c0f4ca3b85f089708b07447224bc91 (patch)
treefb54825de85c92fddd78a88d0daae798f0bcf584 /ident.c
parentb9f0ac1710ed1d2dc865ab40893720e9a242e362 (diff)
downloadgit-060d4bb3d6c0f4ca3b85f089708b07447224bc91.tar.gz
ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_name
The fmt_ident function gets a flag that tells us whether to die if the name field is blank. If it is blank and we don't die, then we fall back to the username from the passwd file. The current code writes the value into git_default_name. However, that's not necessarily correct, as the empty value might have come from git_default_name, or it might have been passed in. This leads to two potential problems: 1. If we are overriding an empty name in the passed-in value, then we may be overwriting a perfectly good name (from gitconfig or gecos) in the git_default_name buffer. Later calls to fmt_ident will end up using the fallback name, even though a better name was available. 2. If we override an empty gecos name, we end up with the fallback name in git_default_name. A later call that uses IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME will see the fallback name and think that it is a good name, instead of producing an error. In other words, a blank gecos name would cause an error with this code: git_committer_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME); but not this: git_committer_info(0); git_committer_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME); because in the latter case, the first call has polluted the name buffer. Instead, let's make the fallback a per-invocation variable. We can just use the pw->pw_name string directly, since it only needs to persist through the rest of the function (and we don't do any other getpwent calls). Note that while this solves (1) for future invocations of fmt_indent, the current invocation might use the fallback when it could in theory load a better value from git_default_name. However, by not passing IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME, the caller is indicating that it does not care too much about the name, anyway, so we don't bother; this is primarily about protecting future callers who do care. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ident.c')
-rw-r--r--ident.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 3b92c44654..87e3cbe589 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -334,9 +334,7 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
pw = getpwuid(getuid());
if (!pw)
die("You don't exist. Go away!");
- strlcpy(git_default_name, pw->pw_name,
- sizeof(git_default_name));
- name = git_default_name;
+ name = pw->pw_name;
}
strcpy(date, ident_default_date());