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fix "git apply --index ..." not to deref NULL
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I noticed this when "git am CORRUPTED" unexpectedly failed with an
odd diagnostic, and even removed one of the files it was supposed
to have patched.

Reproduce with any valid old/new patch from which you have removed
the "+++ b/FILE" line.  You'll see a diagnostic like this

    fatal: unable to write file '(null)' mode 100644: Bad address

and you'll find that FILE has been removed.

The above is on glibc-based systems.  On other systems, rather than
getting "null", you may provoke a segfault as git tries to
dereference the NULL file name.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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meyering authored and gitster committed Oct 12, 2011
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions builtin/apply.c
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Expand Up @@ -1405,6 +1405,9 @@ static int find_header(char *line, unsigned long size, int *hdrsize, struct patc
"%d leading pathname components (line %d)" , p_value, linenr);
patch->old_name = patch->new_name = patch->def_name;
}
if (!patch->is_delete && !patch->new_name)
die("git diff header lacks filename information "
"(line %d)", linenr);
patch->is_toplevel_relative = 1;
*hdrsize = git_hdr_len;
return offset;
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43 changes: 43 additions & 0 deletions t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh
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#!/bin/sh

test_description='git am with corrupt input'
. ./test-lib.sh

# Note the missing "+++" line:
cat > bad-patch.diff <<'EOF'
From: A U Thor <[email protected]>
diff --git a/f b/f
index 7898192..6178079 100644
--- a/f
@@ -1 +1 @@
-a
+b
EOF

test_expect_success setup '
test $? = 0 &&
echo a > f &&
git add f &&
test_tick &&
git commit -m initial
'

# This used to fail before, too, but with a different diagnostic.
# fatal: unable to write file '(null)' mode 100644: Bad address
# Also, it had the unwanted side-effect of deleting f.
test_expect_success 'try to apply corrupted patch' '
git am bad-patch.diff 2> actual
test $? = 1
'

cat > expected <<EOF
fatal: git diff header lacks filename information (line 4)
EOF

test_expect_success 'compare diagnostic; ensure file is still here' '
test $? = 0 &&
test -f f &&
test_cmp expected actual
'

test_done

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