Subject: [PATCH 4/7] setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:36:52 -0500

If setup_git_env() is run before the usual repository discovery
sequence and .git is a file with the text

	gitdir: <path>

(with <path> any string) then the in-core git_dir variable is set to
the result of converting <path> to an absolute path using
make_absolute_path().

Unfortunately make_absolute_path() returns its result in a static
buffer that is overwritten by later calls.  Such a call could cause
later accesses to git_dir (from git_pathdup(), for example) to read
the wrong path, leaving git very confused.

It is not obvious whether any existing code in git will trigger the
problem, but in any case, it is worth a few dozen bytes to copy the
return value from make_absolute_path() for some added peace of mind.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
---
 environment.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index c44a30b..de5581f 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ const char * const local_repo_env[LOCAL_REPO_ENV_SIZE + 1] = {
 static void setup_git_env(void)
 {
 	git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
-	if (!git_dir)
+	if (!git_dir) {
 		git_dir = read_gitfile_gently(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
+		git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL;
+	}
 	if (!git_dir)
 		git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT;
 	git_object_dir = getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT);
-- 
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