Re: [PATCH] upload-pack: don't send null character in abort message to the client
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-26 17:49:07
SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:
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.
It is so so old that makes me wonder if it is safe to "fix" it, but I cannot think of a sensible way to write a third-party client that may have been working fine and would break when this fix is made.
quoted hunk
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); }