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author | Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> | 2017-10-03 22:24:57 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-04 13:58:15 +0900 |
commit | 2944a94c6b74d3941f63d1f4eee5bdfbbf5cd400 (patch) | |
tree | dc4bd33e361edb1ad34b9e665fe8169a1450ba27 /Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | |
parent | http-push: fix construction of hex value from path (diff) | |
download | tgif-2944a94c6b74d3941f63d1f4eee5bdfbbf5cd400.tar.xz |
sub-process: use child_process.args instead of child_process.argv
Currently the argv is only allocated on the stack, and then assigned to
process->argv. When the start_subprocess function goes out of scope,
the local argv variable is eliminated from the stack, but the pointer is
still kept around in process->argv.
Much later when we try to access the same process->argv in
finish_command, this leads us to access a memory location that no longer
contains what we want. As argv0 is only used for printing errors, this
is not easily noticed in normal git operations. However when running
t0021-conversion.sh through valgrind, valgrind rightfully complains:
==21024== Invalid read of size 8
==21024== at 0x2ACF64: finish_command (run-command.c:869)
==21024== by 0x2D6B18: subprocess_exit_handler (sub-process.c:72)
==21024== by 0x2AB41E: cleanup_children (run-command.c:45)
==21024== by 0x2AB526: cleanup_children_on_exit (run-command.c:81)
==21024== by 0x54AD487: __run_exit_handlers (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so)
==21024== by 0x54AD4D9: exit (in /usr/lib/libc-2.26.so)
==21024== by 0x11A9EF: handle_builtin (git.c:550)
==21024== by 0x11ABCC: run_argv (git.c:602)
==21024== by 0x11AD8E: cmd_main (git.c:679)
==21024== by 0x1BF125: main (common-main.c:43)
==21024== Address 0x1ffeffec00 is on thread 1's stack
==21024== 1504 bytes below stack pointer
==21024==
These days, the child_process structure has its own args array, and
the standard way to set up its argv[] is to use that one, instead of
assigning to process->argv to point at an array that is outside.
Use that facility automatically fixes this issue.
Reported-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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