[PATCH] grep -An -Bm: fix invocation of external grep command
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:52
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
When building command line to invoke external grep, the arguments to -A/-B/-C options were placd in randarg[] buffer, but the code forgot that snprintf() does not count terminating NUL in its return value. This caused "git grep -A1 -B2" to invoke external grep with "-B21 -A1". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- * This bug was present since mid May, 2006. builtin-grep.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 185876b..bbf747f 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static int external_grep(struct grep_opt *opt, const char if (opt->pre_context) { push_arg("-B"); len += snprintf(argptr, sizeof(randarg)-len, - "%u", opt->pre_context); + "%u", opt->pre_context) + 1; if (sizeof(randarg) <= len) die("maximum length of args exceeded"); push_arg(argptr);
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int external_grep(struct grep_opt *opt, const char if (opt->post_context) { push_arg("-A"); len += snprintf(argptr, sizeof(randarg)-len, - "%u", opt->post_context); + "%u", opt->post_context) + 1; if (sizeof(randarg) <= len) die("maximum length of args exceeded"); push_arg(argptr);
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int external_grep(struct grep_opt *opt, const char else { push_arg("-C"); len += snprintf(argptr, sizeof(randarg)-len, - "%u", opt->post_context); + "%u", opt->post_context) + 1; if (sizeof(randarg) <= len) die("maximum length of args exceeded"); push_arg(argptr);