Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

@@ -138,10 +140,9 @@ int parse_ref_filter_atom(const char *atom, const char *ep)
                 * shouldn't be used for checking against the valid_atom
                 * table.
                 */
-               const char *formatp = strchr(sp, ':');
-               if (!formatp || ep < formatp)
-                       formatp = ep;
-               if (len == formatp - sp && !memcmp(valid_atom[i].name, sp, len))
+               arg = memchr(sp, ':', ep - sp);
+               if ((!arg || len == arg - sp) &&
+                   !memcmp(valid_atom[i].name, sp, len))
                        break;
        }

Also having a look at this, this breaks the previous error checking we
had at parse_ref_filter_atom().
e.g: git for-each-ref --format="%(refnameboo)" would not throw an error.

I think the code needs to be changed to:

-               if ((!arg || len == arg - sp) &&
+               if ((arg || len == ep - sp) &&
+                   (!arg || len == arg - sp) &&

For completeness, for people reading the mailing list archive, a
couple alternate fixes were presented elsewhere[1], with a personal
bias toward:

    arg = memchr(...);
    if (!arg)
        arg = ep;
    if (len == arg - sp && !memcmp(...))
        ...

[1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-ref-filter-c-don-t-stomp-on-memory-tp7647432p7647433.html