Subject: Re: git.kernel.org disconnects when git-1.3.3 tries to pull changes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:23:34 -0700

Yes, this is a recent breakage.  Thanks for bringing it up.

We need at least a fix like this in 'maint'.

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index ad84928..e66bb80 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -450,6 +450,8 @@ void fill_in_extra_table_entries(struct 
 	 * Replace literal host with lowercase-ized hostname.
 	 */
 	hp = interp_table[INTERP_SLOT_HOST].value;
+	if (!hp)
+		return;
 	for ( ; *hp; hp++)
 		*hp = tolower(*hp);
 
@@ -544,8 +546,10 @@ #endif
 		loginfo("Extended attributes (%d bytes) exist <%.*s>",
 			(int) pktlen - len,
 			(int) pktlen - len, line + len + 1);
-	if (len && line[len-1] == '\n')
+	if (len && line[len-1] == '\n') {
 		line[--len] = 0;
+		pktlen--;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Initialize the path interpolation table for this connection.