In the case where sb is initialized to the slopbuf (through
strbuf_init(sb,0) or STRBUF_INIT), strbuf_grow() loses the terminating
nul: it grows the buffer, but gives ALLOC_GROW a NULL source to avoid
it being freed. So ALLOC_GROW does not copy anything to the new
memory area.
This subtly broke the call to strbuf_getline in read_next_command()
[fast-import.c:1855], which goes
strbuf_detach(&command_buf, NULL); # command_buf is now = STRBUF_INIT
stdin_eof = strbuf_getline(&command_buf, stdin, '\n');
if (stdin_eof)
return EOF;
In strbuf_getwholeline, this did
strbuf_grow(sb, 0); # loses nul-termination
if (feof(fp))
return EOF;
strbuf_reset(sb); # this would have nul-terminated!
Valgrind found this because fast-import subsequently uses prefixcmp()
on command_buf.buf, which after the EOF exit contains only
uninitialized memory.
Arguably strbuf_getwholeline is also broken, in that it touches the
buffer before deciding whether to do any work. However, it seems more
futureproof to not let the strbuf API lose the nul-termination by its
own fault.
So make sure that strbuf_grow() puts in a nul even if it has nowhere
to copy it from. This makes strbuf_grow(sb, 0) a semantic no-op as
far as readers of the buffer are concerned.
Also remove the nul-termination added by strbuf_init, which is made
redudant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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