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diff: avoid stack-buffer-read-overrun for very long name

Due to the use of strncpy without explicit NUL termination,
we could end up passing names n1 or n2 that are not NUL-terminated
to queue_diff, which requires NUL-terminated strings.
Ensure that each is NUL terminated.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jim Meyering 13 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      diff-no-index.c

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diff-no-index.c

@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o, @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
n1 = buffer1;
strncpy(buffer1 + len1, p1.items[i1++].string,
PATH_MAX - len1);
buffer1[PATH_MAX-1] = 0;
}

if (comp < 0)
@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o, @@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
n2 = buffer2;
strncpy(buffer2 + len2, p2.items[i2++].string,
PATH_MAX - len2);
buffer2[PATH_MAX-1] = 0;
}

ret = queue_diff(o, n1, n2);

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