From 8ed51b066681adc88723dbe07b878904c348fdf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 08:04:31 -0400 Subject: help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames When "git merge" sees an unknown refname, we iterate through the refs to try to suggest some possible alternates. We do so with for_each_ref(), and in the callback we add some of the refnames we get to a string_list that is declared with NODUP, directly adding a pointer into the refname string our callback received. But the for_each_ref() machinery does not promise that the refname string will remain valid, and as a result we may print garbage memory. The code in question dates back to its inception in e56181060e (help: add help_unknown_ref(), 2013-05-04). But back then, the refname strings generally did remain stable, at least immediately after the for_each_ref() call. Later, in d1cf15516f (packed_ref_iterator_begin(): iterate using `mmapped_ref_iterator`, 2017-09-25), we started consistently re-using a separate buffer for packed refs. The fix is simple: duplicate the strings we intend to collect. We already call string_list_clear(), so the memory is correctly freed. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- help.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'help.c') diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index 520c9080e8..5583f6cded 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ static int append_similar_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid, static struct string_list guess_refs(const char *ref) { struct similar_ref_cb ref_cb; - struct string_list similar_refs = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; + struct string_list similar_refs = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; ref_cb.base_ref = ref; ref_cb.similar_refs = &similar_refs; -- cgit v1.2.1