Fix users of prefix_path() to free() only when necessary
Unfortunately, prefix_path() sometimes returns a newly xmalloc()ed buffer,
and in other cases it returns a substring!
For example, when calling
git update-index ./hello.txt
prefix_path() returns "hello.txt", but does not allocate a new buffer. The
original code only checked if the result of prefix_path() was different from
what was passed in, and thusly trigger a segmentation fault.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/checkout-index.c b/checkout-index.c
index 0b9cabc..cc3a745 100644
--- a/checkout-index.c
+++ b/checkout-index.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
die("git-checkout-index: don't mix '--stdin' and explicit filenames");
p = prefix_path(prefix, prefix_length, arg);
checkout_file(p);
- if (p != arg)
+ if (p < arg || p > arg + strlen(arg))
free((char*)p);
}
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
path_name = buf.buf;
p = prefix_path(prefix, prefix_length, path_name);
checkout_file(p);
- if (p != path_name)
+ if (p < path_name || p > path_name + strlen(path_name))
free((char *)p);
if (path_name != buf.buf)
free(path_name);
