From 3733e6946465d4a3a1d89026a5ec911d3af339ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:44:28 -0500 Subject: use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic We frequently allocate strings as xmalloc(len + 1), where the extra 1 is for the NUL terminator. This can be done more simply with xmallocz, which also checks for integer overflow. There's no case where switching xmalloc(n+1) to xmallocz(n) is wrong; the result is the same length, and malloc made no guarantees about what was in the buffer anyway. But in some cases, we can stop manually placing NUL at the end of the allocated buffer. But that's only safe if it's clear that the contents will always fill the buffer. In each case where this patch does so, I manually examined the control flow, and I tried to err on the side of caution. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- builtin/merge-tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'builtin/merge-tree.c') diff --git a/builtin/merge-tree.c b/builtin/merge-tree.c index d4f0cbd45..ca570041d 100644 --- a/builtin/merge-tree.c +++ b/builtin/merge-tree.c @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static struct merge_list *create_entry(unsigned stage, unsigned mode, const unsi static char *traverse_path(const struct traverse_info *info, const struct name_entry *n) { - char *path = xmalloc(traverse_path_len(info, n) + 1); + char *path = xmallocz(traverse_path_len(info, n)); return make_traverse_path(path, info, n); } -- cgit v1.2.1