strncpy is known to be a confusing function because of its
termination semantics. These calls are all correct, but it
takes some examination to see why. In particular, every one
of them expects to copy up to the length limit, and then
makes some arrangement for terminating the result.
We can just use memcpy, along with noting explicitly how the
result is terminated (if it is not already obvious). That
should make it more clear to a reader that we are doing the
right thing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We know that a fanned-out sha1 in a notes tree cannot be
more than "aa/bb/cc/...", and we have an assert() to confirm
that. But let's factor out that length into a constant so we
can be sure it is used consistently. And even though we
assert() earlier, let's replace a strcpy with xsnprintf, so
it is clear to a reader that all cases are covered.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To set up default colors, we sometimes strcpy() from the
default string literals into our color buffers. This isn't a
bug (assuming the destination is COLOR_MAXLEN bytes), but
makes it harder to audit the code for problematic strcpy
calls.
Let's introduce a color_set which copies under the
assumption that there are COLOR_MAXLEN bytes in the
destination (of course you can call it on a smaller buffer,
so this isn't providing a huge amount of safety, but it's
more convenient than calling xsnprintf yourself).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we already know the length of a string (e.g., because
we just malloc'd to fit it), it's nicer to use memcpy than
strcpy, as it makes it more obvious that we are not going to
overflow the buffer (because the size we pass matches the
size in the allocation).
This also eliminates calls to strcpy, which make auditing
the code base harder.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are going to launch "/path/to/konqueror", we instead
rewrite this into "/path/to/kfmclient" by duplicating the
original string and writing over the ending bits. This can
be done more obviously with strip_suffix and xstrfmt.
Note that we also fix a subtle bug with the "filename"
parameter, which is passed as argv[0] to the child. If the
user has configured a program name with no directory
component, we always pass the string "kfmclient", even if
your program is called something else. But if you give a
full path, we give the basename of that path. But more
bizarrely, if we rewrite "konqueror" to "kfmclient", we
still pass "konqueror".
The history of this function doesn't reveal anything
interesting, so it looks like just an oversight from
combining the suffix-munging with the basename-finding.
Let's just call basename on the munged path, which produces
consistent results (if you gave a program, whether a full
path or not, we pass its basename).
Probably this doesn't matter at all in practice, but it
makes the code slightly less confusing to read.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To generate "--keep=receive-pack $pid on $host", we write
progressively into a single buffer, which requires keeping
track of how much we've written so far. But since the result
is destined to go into our argv array, we can simply use
argv_array_pushf.
Unfortunately we still have to have a fixed-size buffer for
the gethostname() call, but at least it now doesn't involve
any extra size computation. And as a bonus, we drop an
sprintf and a strcpy call.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are allocating a struct with a FLEX_ARRAY member, we
generally compute the size of the array and then sprintf or
strcpy into it. Normally we could improve a dynamic allocation
like this by using xstrfmt, but it doesn't work here; we
have to account for the size of the rest of the struct.
But we can improve things a bit by storing the length that
we use for the allocation, and then feeding it to xsnprintf
or memcpy, which makes it more obvious that we are not
writing more than the allocated number of bytes.
It would be nice if we had some kind of helper for
allocating generic flex arrays, but it doesn't work that
well:
- the call signature is a little bit unwieldy:
d = flex_struct(sizeof(*d), offsetof(d, path), fmt, ...);
You need offsetof here instead of just writing to the
end of the base size, because we don't know how the
struct is packed (partially this is because FLEX_ARRAY
might not be zero, though we can account for that; but
the size of the struct may actually be rounded up for
alignment, and we can't know that).
- some sites do clever things, like over-allocating because
they know they will write larger things into the buffer
later (e.g., struct packed_git here).
So we're better off to just write out each allocation (or
add type-specific helpers, though many of these are one-off
allocations anyway).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This saves us some manual computation, and eliminates a call
to strcpy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our color parsing is designed to never exceed COLOR_MAXLEN
bytes. But the relationship between that hand-computed
number and the parsing code is not at all obvious, and we
merely hope that it has been computed correctly for all
cases.
Let's mark the expected "end" pointer for the destination
buffer and make sure that we do not exceed it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some cases where we strcpy() the result of sha1_to_hex(),
there's no need; the result goes directly into a printf
statement, and we can simply pass the return value from
sha1_to_hex() directly.
When this code was originally written, sha1_to_hex used a
single buffer, and it was not safe to use it twice within a
single expression. That changed as of dcb3450 (sha1_to_hex()
usage cleanup, 2006-05-03), but this code was never updated.
History-dug-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before sha1_to_hex_r() existed, a simple way to get hex
sha1 into a buffer was with:
strcpy(buf, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
This isn't wrong (assuming the buf is 41 characters), but it
makes auditing the code base for bad strcpy() calls harder,
as these become false positives.
Let's convert them to sha1_to_hex_r(), and likewise for
some calls to find_unique_abbrev(). While we're here, we'll
double-check that all of the buffers are correctly sized,
and use the more obvious GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ constant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This avoids an ugly strcat into a fixed-size buffer. It's
not wrong (the buffer is plenty large enough for an IPv6
address plus some minor formatting), but it takes some
effort to verify that.
Unfortunately we are still stuck with some fixed-size
buffers to hold the output of inet_ntop. But at least we now
pass very easy-to-verify parameters, rather than doing a
manual computation to account for other data in the buffer.
As a side effect, this also fixes the case where we might
pass an uninitialized portbuf buffer through the
environment. This probably couldn't happen in practice, as
it would mean that addr->sa_family was neither AF_INET nor
AF_INET6 (and that is all we are listening on).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to dropping the magic number for the fixed-size
argv, we can also drop a fixed-length buffer and some
strcpy's into it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This drops the magic number for the fixed-size argv arrays,
so we do not have to wonder if we are overflowing it. We can
also drop some confusing sha1_to_hex memory allocation
(which seems to predate the ring of buffers allowing
multiple calls), and get rid of an unchecked sprintf call.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This cleans up a magic number that must be kept in sync with
the rest of the code (the number of argv slots). It also
lets us drop some fixed buffers and an sprintf (since we
can now use argv_array_pushf).
We do still have to keep one fixed buffer for calling
gethostname, but at least now the size computations for it
are much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We dynamically allocate a buffer and then strcpy and strcat
into it. This isn't buggy, but we'd prefer to avoid these
suspicious functions.
This would be a good candidate for converstion to xstrfmt,
but we need to record the length for dealing with index
entries. A strbuf handles that for us.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a loose object tempfile, we use a fixed
PATH_MAX-sized buffer, and strcpy directly into it. This
isn't buggy, because we do a rough check of the size, but
there's no verification that our guesstimate of the required
space is enough (in fact, it's several bytes too big for the
current naming scheme).
Let's switch to a strbuf, which makes this much easier to
verify. The allocation overhead should be negligible, since
we are replacing a static buffer with a static strbuf, and
we'll only need to allocate on the first call.
While we're here, we can also document a subtle interaction
with mkstemp that would be easy to overlook.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function strcpy's directly into a PATH_MAX-sized
buffer. There's only one caller, which feeds the git_dir into
it, so it's not easy to trigger in practice (even if you fed
a large $GIT_DIR through the environment or .git file, it
would have to actually exist and be accessible on the
filesystem to get to this point). We can fix it by moving to
a strbuf.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use two PATH_MAX-sized buffers to represent the repo
path, and must make sure not to overflow them. We do take
care to check the lengths, but the logic is rather hard to
follow, as we use several magic numbers (e.g., "PATH_MAX -
10"). And in fact you _can_ overflow the buffer if you have
a ".git" file with an extremely long path in it.
By switching to strbufs, these problems all go away. We do,
however, retain the check that the initial input we get is
no larger than PATH_MAX. This function is an entry point for
untrusted repo names from the network, and it's a good idea
to keep a sanity check (both to avoid allocating arbitrary
amounts of memory, and also as a layer of defense against
any downstream users of the names).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This would be a fairly routine use of xstrfmt, except that
we need to remember the length of the result to pass to
cache_name_pos. So just use a strbuf, which makes this
simple.
As a bonus, this gets rid of confusing references to
"pathlen+1". The "1" is for the trailing slash we added, but
that is automatically accounted for in the strbuf's len
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generate range strings like "1234abcd...5678efab" for use
in the the fetch and push status tables. We use fixed-size
buffers along with strcat to do so. These aren't buggy, as
our manual size computation is correct, but there's nothing
checking that this is so. Let's switch them to strbufs
instead, which are obviously correct, and make it easier to
audit the code base for problematic calls to strcat().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use manual computation and strcpy to allocate the "root"
variable. This would be much simpler using xstrfmt. But
since we store the length, too, we can just use a strbuf,
which handles that for us.
Note that we stop distinguishing between "no root" and
"empty root" in some cases, but that's OK; the results are
the same (e.g., inserting an empty string is a noop).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The init code predates strbufs, and uses PATH_MAX-sized
buffers along with many manual checks on intermediate sizes
(some of which make magic assumptions, such as that init
will not create a path inside .git longer than 50
characters).
We can simplify this greatly by using strbufs, which drops
some hard-to-verify strcpy calls in favor of git_path_buf.
While we're in the area, let's also convert existing calls
to git_path to the safer git_path_buf (our existing calls
were passed to pretty tame functions, and so were not a
problem, but it's easy to be consistent and safe here).
Note that we had an explicit test that "git init" rejects
long template directories. This comes from 32d1776 (init: Do
not segfault on big GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable,
2009-04-18). We can drop the test_must_fail here, as we now
accept this and need only confirm that we don't segfault,
which was the original point of the test.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are initializing a .git directory, we may call
probe_utf8_pathname_composition to detect utf8 mangling. We
pass in a path buffer for it to use, and it blindly
strcpy()s into it, not knowing whether the buffer is large
enough to hold the result or not.
In practice this isn't a big deal, because the buffer we
pass in already contains "$GIT_DIR/config", and we append
only a few extra bytes to it. But we can easily do the right
thing just by calling git_path_buf ourselves. Technically
this results in a different pathname (before we appended our
utf8 characters to the "config" path, and now they get their
own files in $GIT_DIR), but that should not matter for our
purposes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The result of iconv is assigned to a variable, but we never
use it (instead, we check errno and whether the function
consumed all bytes). Let's drop the assignment, as it
triggers gcc's -Wunused-but-set-variable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do some manual memory computation here, and there's no
check that our 60 is not overflowed by the raw sprintf (it
isn't, because the "which" parameter is never longer than
"pack"). We can simplify this greatly with a strbuf.
Technically the end result is not identical, as the original
took care not to rewrite the object directory on each call
for performance reasons. We could do that here, too (by
saving the baselen and resetting to it), but it's not worth
the complexity; this function is not called a lot (generally
once per packfile that we open).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do an unchecked sprintf directly into our url buffer.
This doesn't overflow because we know that it was sized for
"$base/objects/info/http-alternates", and we are writing
"$base/objects/info/alternates", which must be smaller. But
that is not immediately obvious to a reader who is looking
for buffer overflows. Let's switch to a strbuf, so that we
do not have to think about this issue at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The http-push code defines an fwrite_buffer function for use
as a curl callback; it just writes to a strbuf. There's no
reason we need to use it ourselves, as we know we have a
strbuf. This lets us format directly into it, rather than
dealing with an extra temporary buffer (which required
manual length computation).
While we're here, let's also remove the literal tabs from
the source in favor of "\t", which is more visually obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We format a pkt-line into a heap buffer, which requires
manual computation of the required size, and uses some bare
sprintf calls. We could use a strbuf instead, which would
take care of the computation for us. But it's even easier
still to use packet_write(). Besides handling the formatting
and writing for us, it fixes two things:
1. Our manual max-size check used 0xFFFF, while technically
LARGE_PACKET_MAX is slightly smaller than this.
2. Our packet will now be output as part of
GIT_TRACE_PACKET debugging.
Unfortunately packet_write() does not let us build up the
buffer progressively, so we do have to repeat ourselves a
little depending on the "vhost" setting, but the end result
is still far more readable than the original.
Since there were no tests covering this feature at all,
we'll add a few into t5802.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we report an error to the client, we format it into a
fixed-size buffer using vsprintf(). This can't actually
overflow in practice, since we only format a very tame
subset of strings (mostly strerror() output). However, it's
hard to tell immediately, so let's just use a strbuf so
readers do not have to wonder.
We do add an allocation here, but the performance is not
important; the next step is to call die() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref already uses a strbuf internally when generating
pathnames, but it uses fixed-size buffers for storing the
refname and symbolic refs. This means that you cannot
actually point HEAD to a ref that is larger than 256 bytes.
We can lift this limit by using strbufs here, too. Like
sb_path, we pass the the buffers into our helper function,
so that we can easily clean up all output paths. We can also
drop the "unsafe" name from our helper function, as it no
longer uses a single static buffer (but of course
resolve_ref_unsafe is still unsafe, because the static
buffers moved there).
As a bonus, we also get to drop some strcpy calls between
the two fixed buffers (that cannot currently overflow
because the two buffers are sized identically).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main motivation for this cleanup is to switch our
line-reading to a strbuf, which removes the use of a
fixed-size buffer (which limited the size of remote URLs).
Since we have the strbuf, we can make use of strbuf_rtrim().
While we're here, we can also simplify the parsing of each
line. First, we can use skip_prefix() to avoid some magic
numbers.
But second, we can avoid splitting the parsing and actions
for each line into two stages. Right now we figure out which
type of line we have, set an int to a magic number,
skip any intermediate whitespace, and then act on
the resulting value based on the magic number.
Instead, let's factor the whitespace skipping into a
function. That lets us avoid the magic numbers and keep the
actions close to the parsing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function does a lot of manual string handling, and has
some unnecessary limits. This patch cleans up a number of
things:
1. Drop the arbitrary 1000-byte limit on the size of the
remote name (we do not have such a limit in any of the
other remote-reading mechanisms).
2. Replace fgets into a fixed-size buffer with a strbuf,
eliminating any limits on the length of the URL.
3. Replace manual whitespace handling with strbuf_trim
(since we now have a strbuf). This also gets rid
of a call to strcpy, and the confusing reuse of the "p"
pointer for multiple purposes.
4. We currently build up the refspecs over multiple strbuf
calls. We do this to handle the fact that the URL "frag"
may not be present. But rather than have multiple
conditionals, let's just default "frag" to "master".
This lets us format the refspecs with a single xstrfmt.
It's shorter, and easier to see what the final string
looks like.
We also update the misleading comment in this area (the
local branch is named after the remote name, not after
the branch name on the remote side).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want to make a copy of a string without any leading
whitespace. To do so, we allocate a buffer large enough to
hold the original, skip past the whitespace, then copy that.
It's much simpler to just allocate after we've skipped, in
which case we can just copy the remainder of the string,
leaving no question of whether "len" is large enough.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function predates xstrfmt, and its functionality is a
subset. Let's just use xstrfmt.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref-filter code comes from for-each-ref, and inherited a
number of raw sprintf and strcpy calls. These are generally
all safe, as we custom-size the buffers, or are formatting
numbers into sufficiently large buffers. But we can make the
resulting code even simpler and more obviously correct by
using some of our helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we want to convert "foo.pack" to "foo.idx", we do it by
duplicating the original string and then munging the bytes
in place. Let's use strip_suffix and xstrfmt instead, which
has several advantages:
1. It's more clear what the intent is.
2. It does not implicitly rely on the fact that
strlen(".idx") <= strlen(".pack") to avoid an overflow.
3. We communicate the assumption that the input file ends
with ".pack" (and get a run-time check that this is so).
4. We drop calls to strcpy, which makes auditing the code
base easier.
Likewise, we can do this to convert ".pack" to ".bitmap",
avoiding some manual memory computation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We parse the INFINITE_DEPTH constant into a static,
fixed-size buffer using sprintf. This buffer is sufficiently
large for the current constant, but it's a suspicious
pattern, as the constant is defined far away, and it's not
immediately obvious that 12 bytes are large enough to hold
it.
We can just use xstrfmt here, which gets rid of any question
of the buffer size. It also removes any concerns with object
lifetime, which means we do not have to wonder why this
buffer deep within a conditional is marked "static" (we
never free our newly allocated result, of course, but that's
OK; it's global that lasts the lifetime of the whole program
anyway).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We xmalloc a fixed-size buffer and sprintf into it; this is
OK because the size of our formatting types is finite, but
that's not immediately clear to a reader auditing sprintf
calls. Let's switch to xstrfmt, which is shorter and
obviously correct.
Note that just dropping the common xmalloc here causes gcc
to complain with -Wmaybe-uninitialized. That's because if
"types" does not match any of our known types, we never
write anything into the "normalized" pointer. With the
current code, gcc doesn't notice because we always return a
valid pointer (just one which might point to uninitialized
data, but the compiler doesn't know that). In other words,
the current code is potentially buggy if new types are added
without updating this spot.
So let's take this opportunity to clean up the function a
bit more. We can drop the "normalized" pointer entirely, and
just return directly from each code path. And then add an
assertion at the end in case we haven't covered any cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's a common pattern to do:
foo = xmalloc(strlen(one) + strlen(two) + 1 + 1);
sprintf(foo, "%s %s", one, two);
(or possibly some variant with strcpy()s or a more
complicated length computation). We can switch these to use
xstrfmt, which is shorter, involves less error-prone manual
computation, and removes many sprintf and strcpy calls which
make it harder to audit the code for real buffer overflows.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This strncpy is pointless; we pass the strlen() of the src
string, meaning that it works just like a memcpy. Worse,
though, is that the size has no relation to the destination
buffer, meaning it is a potential overflow. In practice,
it's not. We pass only short constant strings like
"warning: " and "error: ", which are much smaller than the
destination buffer.
We can make this much simpler by just using xsnprintf, which
will check for overflow and return the size for our next
vsnprintf, without us having to run a separate strlen().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We account for these strcats in our initial allocation, but
the code is confusing to follow and verify. Let's remember
our original allocation length, and then xsnprintf can
verify that we don't exceed it.
Note that we can't just use xstrfmt here (which would be
even cleaner) because the code tries to grow the buffer only
when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have the path "foo.idx", and we create a buffer big
enough to hold "foo.pack" and "foo.keep", and then strcpy
straight into it. This isn't a bug (we have enough space),
but it's very hard to tell from the strcpy that this is so.
Let's instead use strip_suffix to take off the ".idx",
record the size of our allocation, and use xsnprintf to make
sure we don't violate our assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This particular conversion is non-obvious, because nobody
has passed our function the length of the destination
buffer. However, the interface to checkout_entry specifies
that the buffer must be at least TEMPORARY_FILENAME_LENGTH
bytes long, so we can check that (meaning the existing code
was not buggy, but merely worrisome to somebody reading it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This looks at first glance like the sprintf can overflow our
buffer, but it's actually fine; the p->origin string is
something constant and small, like "command line" or "-e
option".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a trivially correct use of sprintf, as our error
number should not be excessively long. But it's still nice
to drop an sprintf call.
Note that we cannot use xsnprintf here, because this is
compat code which does not load git-compat-util.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usual arguments for using xsnprintf over sprintf apply,
but this case is a little tricky. We print to a fixed-size
buffer if we have room, and otherwise to an allocated
buffer. So there should be no overflow here, but it is still
good to communicate our intention, as well as to check our
earlier math for how much space the string will need.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use sprintf() to format some hex data into a buffer. The
buffer is clearly long enough, and using snprintf here is
not necessary. And in fact, it does not really make anything
easier to audit, as the size we feed to snprintf accounts
for the magic extra 42 bytes found in each alt->name field
of struct alternate_object_database (which is there exactly
to do this formatting).
Still, it is nice to remove an sprintf call and replace it
with an xsnprintf and explanatory comment, which makes it
easier to audit the code base for overflows.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generally use 32-byte buffers to format git's "type size"
header fields. These should not generally overflow unless
you can produce some truly gigantic objects (and our types
come from our internal array of constant strings). But it is
a good idea to use xsnprintf to make sure this is the case.
Note that we slightly modify the interface to
write_sha1_file_prepare, which nows uses "hdrlen" as an "in"
parameter as well as an "out" (on the way in it stores the
allocated size of the header, and on the way out it returns
the ultimate size of the header).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we generate tar headers, we sprintf() values directly
into a struct with the fixed-size header values. For the
most part this is fine, as we are formatting small values
(e.g., the octal format of "mode & 0x7777" is of fixed
length). But it's still a good idea to use xsnprintf here.
It communicates to readers what our expectation is, and it
provides a run-time check that we are not overflowing the
buffers.
The one exception here is the mtime, which comes from the
epoch time of the commit we are archiving. For sane values,
this fits into the 12-byte value allocated in the header.
But since git can handle 64-bit times, if I claim to be a
visitor from the year 10,000 AD, I can overflow the buffer.
This turns out to be harmless, as we simply overflow into
the chksum field, which is then overwritten.
This case is also best as an xsnprintf. It should never come
up, short of extremely malformed dates, and in that case we
are probably better off dying than silently truncating the
date value (and we cannot expand the size of the buffer,
since it is dictated by the ustar format). Our friends in
the year 5138 (when we legitimately flip to a 12-digit
epoch) can deal with that problem then.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
