This particular readlink call never NUL-terminated its result, making it a potential source of bugs (though there is no bug now, as it currently always respects the length field). Let's just switch it to strbuf_readlink which is shorter and less error-prone. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- This is a re-post with the missing strbuf_release added. I am not overly married to this patch, so if you think it is code churn, please just say so and drop it. I am just clearing out my "clean up and submit" queue. :) diff.c | 11 ++++------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index f06876b..dcfbcb0 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -2014,18 +2014,15 @@ static struct diff_tempfile *prepare_temp_file(const char *name, die("stat(%s): %s", name, strerror(errno)); } if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) { - int ret; - char buf[PATH_MAX + 1]; /* ought to be SYMLINK_MAX */ - ret = readlink(name, buf, sizeof(buf)); - if (ret < 0) + struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; + if (strbuf_readlink(&sb, name, st.st_size) < 0) die("readlink(%s)", name); - if (ret == sizeof(buf)) - die("symlink too long: %s", name); - prep_temp_blob(name, temp, buf, ret, + prep_temp_blob(name, temp, sb.buf, sb.len, (one->sha1_valid ? one->sha1 : null_sha1), (one->sha1_valid ? one->mode : S_IFLNK)); + strbuf_release(&sb); } else { /* we can borrow from the file in the work tree */ -- 1.6.3.1.250.g01b8b.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html