parallel-checkout: send the new object_id algo field to the workers

An object_id storing a SHA-1 name has some unused bytes at the end of
the hash array. Since these bytes are not used, they are usually not
initialized to any value either. However, at
parallel_checkout.c:send_one_item() the object_id of a cache entry is
copied into a buffer which is later sent to a checkout worker through a
pipe write(). This makes Valgrind complain about passing uninitialized
bytes to a syscall. The worker won't use these uninitialized bytes
either, but the warning could confuse someone trying to debug this code;
So instead of using oidcpy(), send_one_item() uses hashcpy() to only
copy the used/initialized bytes of the object_id, and leave the
remaining part with zeros.

However, since cf0983213c ("hash: add an algo member to struct
object_id", 2021-04-26), using hashcpy() is no longer sufficient here as
it won't copy the new algo field from the object_id. Let's add and use a
new function which meets both our requirements of copying all the
important object_id data while still avoiding the uninitialized bytes,
by padding the end of the hash array in the destination object_id. With
this change, we also no longer need the destination buffer from
send_one_item() to be initialized with zeros, so let's switch from
xcalloc() to xmalloc() to make this clear.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hash.h b/hash.h
index 2986f991c6..9c6df4d952 100644
--- a/hash.h
+++ b/hash.h
@@ -263,6 +263,22 @@ static inline void oidcpy(struct object_id *dst, const struct object_id *src)
 	dst->algo = src->algo;
 }
 
+/* Like oidcpy() but zero-pads the unused bytes in dst's hash array. */
+static inline void oidcpy_with_padding(struct object_id *dst,
+				       struct object_id *src)
+{
+	size_t hashsz;
+
+	if (!src->algo)
+		hashsz = the_hash_algo->rawsz;
+	else
+		hashsz = hash_algos[src->algo].rawsz;
+
+	memcpy(dst->hash, src->hash, hashsz);
+	memset(dst->hash + hashsz, 0, GIT_MAX_RAWSZ - hashsz);
+	dst->algo = src->algo;
+}
+
 static inline struct object_id *oiddup(const struct object_id *src)
 {
 	struct object_id *dst = xmalloc(sizeof(struct object_id));