Re: [PATCH 1/3] path.c: fix uninitialized memory access

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:45:01PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> In other words, an alternative fix would be
>> 
>> 	if (*path == '.' && path[1] == '/') {
>> 		...
>> 	}
>> 
>> which would not require passing in 'len' or switching to index-based
>> arithmetic.  I think I prefer it.  What do you think?
>
> Yes, I think that approach is much nicer. I think you could even use
> skip_prefix. Unfortunately you have to play a few games with const-ness,
> but I think the resulting signature for cleanup_path() is an
> improvement:

Ooh!

For what it's worth, if you add a commit message with Thomas's
Reported-by then this lgtm.

Thanks,
Jonathan

> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> index 00ec04e7a5..2e09a7bce0 100644
> --- a/path.c
> +++ b/path.c
> @@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ static struct strbuf *get_pathname(void)
>  	return sb;
>  }
>  
> -static char *cleanup_path(char *path)
> +static const char *cleanup_path(const char *path)
>  {
>  	/* Clean it up */
> -	if (!memcmp(path, "./", 2)) {
> -		path += 2;
> +	if (skip_prefix(path, "./", &path)) {
>  		while (*path == '/')
>  			path++;
>  	}
> @@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ static char *cleanup_path(char *path)
>  
>  static void strbuf_cleanup_path(struct strbuf *sb)
>  {
> -	char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf);
> +	const char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf);
>  	if (path > sb->buf)
>  		strbuf_remove(sb, 0, path - sb->buf);
>  }
> @@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ char *mksnpath(char *buf, size_t n, const char *fmt, ...)
>  		strlcpy(buf, bad_path, n);
>  		return buf;
>  	}
> -	return cleanup_path(buf);
> +	return (char *)cleanup_path(buf);
>  }
>  
>  static int dir_prefix(const char *buf, const char *dir)