regex: use regexec_buf()

The new regexec_buf() function operates on buffers with an explicitly
specified length, rather than NUL-terminated strings.

We need to use this function whenever the buffer we want to pass to
regexec(3) may have been mmap(2)ed (and is hence not NUL-terminated).

Note: the original motivation for this patch was to fix a bug where
`git diff -G <regex>` would crash. This patch converts more callers,
though, some of which allocated to construct NUL-terminated strings,
or worse, modified buffers to temporarily insert NULs while calling
regexec(3).  By converting them to use regexec_buf(), the code has
become much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/xdiff-interface.c b/xdiff-interface.c
index 54236f24b..08a7313e6 100644
--- a/xdiff-interface.c
+++ b/xdiff-interface.c
@@ -216,11 +216,10 @@ struct ff_regs {
 static long ff_regexp(const char *line, long len,
 		char *buffer, long buffer_size, void *priv)
 {
-	char *line_buffer;
 	struct ff_regs *regs = priv;
 	regmatch_t pmatch[2];
 	int i;
-	int result = -1;
+	int result;
 
 	/* Exclude terminating newline (and cr) from matching */
 	if (len > 0 && line[len-1] == '\n') {
@@ -230,18 +229,16 @@ static long ff_regexp(const char *line, long len,
 			len--;
 	}
 
-	line_buffer = xstrndup(line, len); /* make NUL terminated */
-
 	for (i = 0; i < regs->nr; i++) {
 		struct ff_reg *reg = regs->array + i;
-		if (!regexec(&reg->re, line_buffer, 2, pmatch, 0)) {
+		if (!regexec_buf(&reg->re, line, len, 2, pmatch, 0)) {
 			if (reg->negate)
-				goto fail;
+				return -1;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 	if (regs->nr <= i)
-		goto fail;
+		return -1;
 	i = pmatch[1].rm_so >= 0 ? 1 : 0;
 	line += pmatch[i].rm_so;
 	result = pmatch[i].rm_eo - pmatch[i].rm_so;
@@ -250,8 +247,6 @@ static long ff_regexp(const char *line, long len,
 	while (result > 0 && (isspace(line[result - 1])))
 		result--;
 	memcpy(buffer, line, result);
- fail:
-	free(line_buffer);
 	return result;
 }