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[PATCH] upload-pack: don't send null character in abort message to the client

From: SZEDER Gábor <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-25 18:34:57
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Since 583b7ea31b (upload-pack/fetch-pack: support side-band
communication, 2006-06-21) the abort message sent by upload-pack in
case of possible repository corruption ends with a null character.
This can be seen in several test cases in 't5530-upload-pack-error.sh'
where 'grep <pattern> output.err' often reports "Binary file
output.err matches" because of that null character.

The reason for this is that the abort message is defined as a string
literal, and we pass its size to the send function as
sizeof(abort_msg), which also counts the terminating null character.

Use strlen() instead to avoid sending that terminating null character.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <redacted>
---
 upload-pack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index 2537affa90..6e0d441ef5 100644
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static void create_pack_file(struct upload_pack_data *pack_data,
 
  fail:
 	free(output_state);
-	send_client_data(3, abort_msg, sizeof(abort_msg),
+	send_client_data(3, abort_msg, strlen(abort_msg),
 			 pack_data->use_sideband);
 	die("git upload-pack: %s", abort_msg);
 }
-- 
2.44.0.rc1.366.g26e5fbbdb0
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