Re: [PATCH 2/2] builtin git-mv: support moving directories

Juergen Ruehle [off-list ref] writes:

This might have been fixed already (my tree is a couple of days old),
but the strcat fails for me, because the alloced memory is not
cleared.

Johannes Schindelin writes:
 > +static const char *add_slash(const char *path)
 > +{
 > +	int len = strlen(path);
 > +	if (path[len - 1] != '/') {
 > +		char *with_slash = xmalloc(len + 2);
 > +		memcpy(with_slash, path, len);
 > +		strcat(with_slash + len, "/");
 > +		return with_slash;
 > +	}
 > +	return path;
 > +}

perhaps morph the strcat into a memcopy or append the slash and the
NUL manually?

Thanks, well spotted.  A textually minimum change would be to
do:

- 		memcpy(with_slash, path, len);
+ 		memcpy(with_slash, path, len + 1);

but that would touch the end of the string twice, so manually
terminating the string with '/' NUL would be appropriate.

I will apply a patch I've been privately using from time to time
to catch something like this to "master".

-- >8 --
[PATCH] debugging: XMALLOC_POISON

Compile with -DXMALLOC_POISON=1 to catch errors from using uninitialized
memory returned by xmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
 git-compat-util.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 93f5580..3bcf5b1 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h

@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ static inline void *xmalloc(size_t size)
 		ret = malloc(1);
 	if (!ret)
 		die("Out of memory, malloc failed");
+#ifdef XMALLOC_POISON
+	memset(ret, 0xA5, size);
+#endif
 	return ret;
 }
 

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