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authorBrandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>2011-10-07 22:20:20 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-10-10 10:05:07 -0700
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refs.c: ensure struct whose member may be passed to realloc is initialized
The variable "refs" is allocated on the stack but is not initialized. It is passed to read_packed_refs(), and its struct members may eventually be passed to add_ref() and ALLOC_GROW(). Since the structure has not been initialized, its members may contain random non-zero values. So let's initialize it. The call sequence looks something like this: resolve_gitlink_packed_ref(...) { struct cached_refs refs; ... read_packed_refs(f, &refs); ... } read_packed_refs(FILE*, struct cached_refs *cached_refs) { ... add_ref(name, sha1, flag, &cached_refs->packed, &last); ... } add_ref(..., struct ref_array *refs, struct ref_entry **) { ... ALLOC_GROW(refs->refs, refs->nr + 1, refs->alloc); } Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'refs.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 5835b40b0..c31b46166 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ static int resolve_gitlink_packed_ref(char *name, int pathlen, const char *refna
f = fopen(name, "r");
if (!f)
return -1;
+ memset(&refs, 0, sizeof(refs));
read_packed_refs(f, &refs);
fclose(f);
ref = search_ref_array(&refs.packed, refname);