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Fix buffer overflow in git-grep
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If PATH_MAX on your system is smaller than any path stored in the git
repository, that can cause memory corruption inside of the grep_tree
function used by git-grep.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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dmpot authored and gitster committed Jul 16, 2008
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27 changes: 15 additions & 12 deletions builtin-grep.c
Expand Up @@ -427,33 +427,35 @@ static int grep_tree(struct grep_opt *opt, const char **paths,
struct name_entry entry;
char *down;
int tn_len = strlen(tree_name);
char *path_buf = xmalloc(PATH_MAX + tn_len + 100);
struct strbuf pathbuf;

strbuf_init(&pathbuf, PATH_MAX + tn_len);

if (tn_len) {
tn_len = sprintf(path_buf, "%s:", tree_name);
down = path_buf + tn_len;
strcat(down, base);
}
else {
down = path_buf;
strcpy(down, base);
strbuf_add(&pathbuf, tree_name, tn_len);
strbuf_addch(&pathbuf, ':');
tn_len = pathbuf.len;
}
len = strlen(path_buf);
strbuf_addstr(&pathbuf, base);
len = pathbuf.len;

while (tree_entry(tree, &entry)) {
strcpy(path_buf + len, entry.path);
int te_len = tree_entry_len(entry.path, entry.sha1);
pathbuf.len = len;
strbuf_add(&pathbuf, entry.path, te_len);

if (S_ISDIR(entry.mode))
/* Match "abc/" against pathspec to
* decide if we want to descend into "abc"
* directory.
*/
strcpy(path_buf + len + tree_entry_len(entry.path, entry.sha1), "/");
strbuf_addch(&pathbuf, '/');

down = pathbuf.buf + tn_len;
if (!pathspec_matches(paths, down))
;
else if (S_ISREG(entry.mode))
hit |= grep_sha1(opt, entry.sha1, path_buf, tn_len);
hit |= grep_sha1(opt, entry.sha1, pathbuf.buf, tn_len);
else if (S_ISDIR(entry.mode)) {
enum object_type type;
struct tree_desc sub;
Expand All @@ -469,6 +471,7 @@ static int grep_tree(struct grep_opt *opt, const char **paths,
free(data);
}
}
strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
return hit;
}

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