Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Previously, get_sha1_hex() would read one character past the end of a
> > null-terminated string whose strlen was an even number less than 40.
> > Although the function correctly returned -1 in these cases, the extra
> > memory access might have been to uninitialized (or even, conceivably,
> > unallocated) memory.
> >
> > Add a check to avoid reading past the end of a string.
>
> Makes sense; thanks.
Has this fixed patch ever made it to pu? I'm still seeing the same
breakage in the automated valgrind runs.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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