Previously the failure came later, after a few steps in which the
length was treated like the actual length of a string. Even though
the old code gave the same answers, it was somewhat misleading.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
refs.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index d2aac24..c51fd45 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -518,6 +518,8 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
/* Follow "normalized" - ie "refs/.." symlinks by hand */
if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
+ if (len < 0)
+ return NULL;
if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buffer, 5)) {
buffer[len] = 0;
strcpy(ref_buffer, buffer);
--
1.7.6.8.gd2879
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