setup: fix windows path buffer over-stepping
authorMartin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:06:09 +0000 (15:06 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:46:13 +0000 (13:46 -0700)
Fix a buffer over-stepping issue triggered by providing an absolute path
that is similar to the work tree path.

abspath_part_inside_repo() may currently increment the path pointer by
offset_1st_component() + wtlen, which is too much, since
offset_1st_component() is a subset of wtlen.

For the *nix-style prefix '/', this does (by luck) not cause any issues,
since offset_1st_component() is 1 and there will always be a '/' or '\0'
that can "absorb" this.

In the case of DOS-style prefixes though, the offset_1st_component() is
3 and this can potentially over-step the string buffer. For example if

work_tree = "c:/r"
path = "c:/rl"

Then wtlen is 4, and incrementing the path pointer by (3 + 4) would
end up 2 bytes outside a string buffer of length 6.

Similarly if

work_tree = "c:/r"
path = "c:/rl/d/a"

Then (since the loop starts by also incrementing the pointer one step),
this would mean that the function would miss checking if "c:/rl/d" could
be the work_tree, arguably this is unlikely though, since it would only
be possible with symlinks on windows.

Fix this by simply avoiding to increment by offset_1st_component() and
wtlen at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 8295ba6bd85b54089b2d0c564007b25d563877bc..3857b58562d8ff0ceb1adbccdd51c989d2326172 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static int abspath_part_inside_repo(char *path)
                return -1;
        wtlen = strlen(work_tree);
        len = strlen(path);
-       off = 0;
+       off = offset_1st_component(path);
 
        /* check if work tree is already the prefix */
        if (wtlen <= len && !strncmp(path, work_tree, wtlen)) {
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int abspath_part_inside_repo(char *path)
                off = wtlen;
        }
        path0 = path;
-       path += offset_1st_component(path) + off;
+       path += off;
 
        /* check each '/'-terminated level */
        while (*path) {