Subject: Re: [PATCH] mingw: consider that UNICODE_STRING::Length counts bytes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:07:19 -0800

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Max,
>
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Max Kirillov wrote:
>
>> UNICODE_STRING::Length field means size of buffer in bytes[1], despite
>> of buffer itself being array of wchar_t. Because of that terminating
>> zero is placed twice as far. Fix it.
>
> This commit message needs to be wrapped at <= 76 columns per row.
> ...
> Very good, thank you for fixing my mistake! I verified locally that it
> does exactly the right thing with your patch.

Thanks, both.  I'll queue this like so.

-- >8 --
From: Max Kirillov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 23:32:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mingw: consider that UNICODE_STRING::Length counts bytes

UNICODE_STRING::Length field means size of buffer in bytes[1],
despite of buffer itself being array of wchar_t. Because of that
terminating zero is placed twice as far. Fix it.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380518.aspx

Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 compat/winansi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compat/winansi.c b/compat/winansi.c
index 3be60ce1c6..6b4f736fdc 100644
--- a/compat/winansi.c
+++ b/compat/winansi.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ static void detect_msys_tty(int fd)
 			buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 2, &result)))
 		return;
 	name = nameinfo->Name.Buffer;
-	name[nameinfo->Name.Length] = 0;
+	name[nameinfo->Name.Length / sizeof(*name)] = 0;
 
 	/* check if this could be a MSYS2 pty pipe ('msys-XXXX-ptyN-XX') */
 	if (!wcsstr(name, L"msys-") || !wcsstr(name, L"-pty"))

base-commit: f7f90e0f4f58d493242078d17c0eba41dd3f1f79
-- 
2.11.0-416-g1351c11cce