From 902b90cf42bc3c05f9fd124edac42ef1fc4ffafa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elijah Newren Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:35:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clean: fix theoretical path corruption cmd_clean() had the following code structure: struct strbuf abs_path = STRBUF_INIT; for_each_string_list_item(item, &del_list) { strbuf_addstr(&abs_path, prefix); strbuf_addstr(&abs_path, item->string); PROCESS(&abs_path); strbuf_reset(&abs_path); } where I've elided a bunch of unnecessary details and PROCESS(&abs_path) represents a big chunk of code rather than an actual function call. One piece of PROCESS was: if (lstat(abs_path.buf, &st)) continue; which would cause the strbuf_reset() to be missed -- meaning that the next path to be handled would have two paths concatenated. This path used to use die_errno() instead of continue prior to commit 396049e5fb62 ("git-clean: refactor git-clean into two phases", 2013-06-25), but my understanding of how correct_untracked_entries() works is that it will prevent both dir/ and dir/file from being in the list to clean so this should be dead code and the die_errno() should be safe. But I hesitate to remove it since I am not certain. However, we can fix both this bug and possible similar future bugs by simply moving the strbuf_reset(&abs_path) to the beginning of the loop. It'll result in N calls to strbuf_reset() instead of N-1, but that's a small price to pay to avoid sneaky bugs like this. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- builtin/clean.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c index 6030842f3a..4cf2399f59 100644 --- a/builtin/clean.c +++ b/builtin/clean.c @@ -1018,6 +1018,7 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) for_each_string_list_item(item, &del_list) { struct stat st; + strbuf_reset(&abs_path); if (prefix) strbuf_addstr(&abs_path, prefix); @@ -1051,7 +1052,6 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) printf(dry_run ? _(msg_would_remove) : _(msg_remove), qname); } } - strbuf_reset(&abs_path); } strbuf_release(&abs_path); -- 2.11.4.GIT