[PATCH 7/7] test-read-midx: check midx_fill_entry() result
From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-17 17:52:53
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> The `--show-objects` mode of `read_midx_file()` uses the output of `midx_fill_entry()` without checking whether the lookup succeeded. A failed lookup or unavailable pack can leave that output unusable, allowing malformed or concurrently changed MIDX data to make this test helper crash instead of reporting a controlled error. Reject the entry unless `midx_fill_entry()` returns `MIDX_FILL_HIT`. The unchecked call was introduced by 86d174b7246b (t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add '--show-objects', 2021-03-30); later incremental-MIDX changes expanded the possible failure modes, but this remains a test-helper robustness issue, not a production Git attack surface or an arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability. It is unclear why Coverity reports this issue in Git for Windows only after merging v2.56.0-rc0; The issue was not reported before. Assisted-by: GPT-5.6 Luna Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> --- t/helper/test-read-midx.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/helper/test-read-midx.c b/t/helper/test-read-midx.c
index 83b07c6236..412089563f 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-read-midx.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-read-midx.c@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ static int read_midx_file(const char *object_dir, const char *checksum, for (i = 0; i < m->num_objects; i++) { nth_midxed_object_oid(&oid, m, i + m->num_objects_in_base); - midx_fill_entry(m, &oid, &e, NULL); + if (midx_fill_entry(m, &oid, &e, NULL) != + MIDX_FILL_HIT) { + ret = error(_("failed to load pack entry")); + goto out; + } printf("%s %"PRIu64"\t%s\n", oid_to_hex(&oid), e.offset, e.p->pack_name);
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