Merge branch 'ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix' into maint

After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function
sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat,
which has been fixed.

* ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix:
  diff: fix lstat() error handling in diff_populate_filespec()

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index e6814b9e9c..1898dd307d 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3545,14 +3545,12 @@ int diff_populate_filespec(struct diff_filespec *s, unsigned int flags)
 		int fd;
 
 		if (lstat(s->path, &st) < 0) {
-			if (errno == ENOENT) {
-			err_empty:
-				err = -1;
-			empty:
-				s->data = (char *)"";
-				s->size = 0;
-				return err;
-			}
+		err_empty:
+			err = -1;
+		empty:
+			s->data = (char *)"";
+			s->size = 0;
+			return err;
 		}
 		s->size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
 		if (!s->size)