combine-diff: better hunk splitting.

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index c8159183dac830bf7cba20edf480712f039d7135..17d68fa699f7c88aef8e6c1a0812575bfaec70e1 100644 (file)
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -504,9 +504,9 @@ static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
                }
                if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
                        int ret;
-                       char *buf, buf_[1024];
-                       buf = ((sizeof(buf_) < st.st_size) ?
-                              xmalloc(st.st_size) : buf_);
+                       char buf[PATH_MAX + 1]; /* ought to be SYMLINK_MAX */
+                       if (sizeof(buf) <= st.st_size)
+                               die("symlink too long: %s", name);
                        ret = readlink(name, buf, st.st_size);
                        if (ret < 0)
                                die("readlink(%s)", name);
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ static void diff_fill_sha1_info(struct diff_filespec *one)
        if (DIFF_FILE_VALID(one)) {
                if (!one->sha1_valid) {
                        struct stat st;
-                       if (stat(one->path, &st) < 0)
+                       if (lstat(one->path, &st) < 0)
                                die("stat %s", one->path);
                        if (index_path(one->sha1, one->path, &st, 0))
                                die("cannot hash %s\n", one->path);
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ int diff_setup_done(struct diff_options *options)
                         * so it is safe for us to do this here.  Also
                         * it does not smudge active_cache or active_nr
                         * when it fails, so we do not have to worry about
-                        * cleaning it up oufselves either.
+                        * cleaning it up ourselves either.
                         */
                        read_cache();
        }