Annoyingly, it looked for the closing bracket in the author name instead of in the message, and then accessed the NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin-shortlog.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-shortlog.c b/builtin-shortlog.c index 48a2a0b..26212b0 100644 --- a/builtin-shortlog.c +++ b/builtin-shortlog.c @@ -108,13 +108,15 @@ static void insert_author_oneline(struct free(buffer); if (!strncmp(oneline, "[PATCH", 6)) { - char *eob = strchr(buffer, ']'); - - while (isspace(eob[1]) && eob[1] != '\n') - eob++; - if (eob - oneline < onelinelen) { - onelinelen -= eob - oneline; - oneline = eob; + char *eob = strchr(oneline, ']'); + + if (eob) { + while (isspace(eob[1]) && eob[1] != '\n') + eob++; + if (eob - oneline < onelinelen) { + onelinelen -= eob - oneline; + oneline = eob; + } } } -- 1.4.4.GIT - 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