Hi Michael Michael Haggerty wrote: > Immediately strip off trailing spaces and null-terminate the string > holding the contents of the reference file; this allows the use of > string functions and avoids the need to keep separate track of the > string's length. (get_sha1_hex() fails automatically if the string is > too short.) > > Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I'm getting valgrind failures in t1450-fsck and t3800-mktag which blame to this commit. For t1450 it looks as follows: ok 5 - object with bad sha1 expecting success: git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid && test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" && git fsck 2>out && cat out && grep "not a commit" out ==19623== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==19623== at 0x4B6747: hexval (cache.h:798) ==19623== by 0x4B6797: get_sha1_hex (hex.c:42) ==19623== by 0x4DD12A: resolve_ref (refs.c:588) ==19623== by 0x4DC777: get_ref_dir (refs.c:313) ==19623== by 0x4DC6FA: get_ref_dir (refs.c:302) ==19623== by 0x4DC963: get_loose_refs (refs.c:368) ==19623== by 0x4DD556: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:687) ==19623== by 0x4DDA05: for_each_replace_ref (refs.c:806) ==19623== by 0x4E5CE9: prepare_replace_object (replace_object.c:86) ==19623== by 0x4E5D3C: do_lookup_replace_object (replace_object.c:103) ==19623== by 0x4C99BB: lookup_replace_object (cache.h:764) ==19623== by 0x4C9FA6: parse_object (object.c:191) ==19623== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation ==19623== at 0x4DCE34: resolve_ref (refs.c:498) or when I run it at the tip of pu instead of at the commit itself, line numbers are like so: ==2308== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==2308== at 0x4ADB8B: get_sha1_hex (cache.h:800) ==2308== by 0x4D4283: resolve_ref (refs.c:629) ==2308== by 0x4D4851: get_ref_dir (refs.c:361) ==2308== by 0x4D48C6: get_ref_dir (refs.c:350) ==2308== by 0x4D4D29: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:412) ==2308== by 0x4DCD93: do_lookup_replace_object (replace_object.c:86) ==2308== by 0x4C31F4: parse_object (cache.h:764) ==2308== by 0x4F2A1D: get_sha1_1 (sha1_name.c:567) ==2308== by 0x4F2D5F: get_sha1_with_context_1 (sha1_name.c:1117) ==2308== by 0x4F3543: get_sha1 (cache.h:822) ==2308== by 0x461B50: cmd_rev_parse (rev-parse.c:723) ==2308== by 0x404B71: run_builtin (git.c:308) ==2308== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation ==2308== at 0x4D4006: resolve_ref (refs.c:530) Can you look into this? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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