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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty.c: make git_pretty_formats_config return -1 on git_config_string failure
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:06:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtx5s7yo4.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140804203351.GA12898@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:33:51 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:45:44PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:
>> 
>> > `git_pretty_formats_config()` continues without checking git_config_string's
>> > return value which can lead to a SEGFAULT.
>> 
>> Indeed, without the patch:
>> 
>> $ git -c pretty.my= log --pretty=my                        
>> error: Missing value for 'pretty.my'                         
>> zsh: segmentation fault  git -c pretty.my= log --pretty=my
>
> Hmm. Not related to the original patch, but that really looks like a
> bug. Shouldn't "git -c pretty.my= ..." set pretty.my to the empty string?
>
> I'd expect "git -c pretty.my ..." to set it to NULL (i.e., the "implicit
> true" you get from omitting the "=" in the config files themselves).

Indeed.

strbuf_split_buf() does not seem to distinguish between x= and x. No
time to debug this further, sorry.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-04 14:41 [PATCH] pretty.c: make git_pretty_formats_config return -1 on git_config_string failure Tanay Abhra
2014-08-04 15:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-04 18:56   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-08-04 19:49     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-04 20:33   ` Jeff King
2014-08-04 21:06     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-08-04 21:56       ` [PATCH] config: teach "git -c" to recognize an empty string Jeff King
2014-08-04 22:25         ` Junio C Hamano

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