On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Phil Hord <phil.hord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> entr_repo(..., 0) currently modifies the input to strip away
>> trailing slashes. This means that we some times need to copy the
>> input to keep the original.
>
> I'm also modifying enter_repo() so I'm looking a bit closer at this patch now.
>
>> Change it to unconditionally copy it into the used_path buffer so
>> we can safely use the input without having to copy it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
> [...]
>> */
>> -char *enter_repo(char *path, int strict)
>> +const char *enter_repo(const char *path, int strict)
>> {
>> static char used_path[PATH_MAX];
>> static char validated_path[PATH_MAX];
>> @@ -297,14 +297,15 @@ char *enter_repo(char *path, int strict)
>> };
>> int len = strlen(path);
>> int i;
>> - while ((1 < len) && (path[len-1] == '/')) {
>> - path[len-1] = 0;
>> + while ((1 < len) && (path[len-1] == '/'))
>> len--;
>> - }
>> +
>> if (PATH_MAX <= len)
>> return NULL;
>> - if (path[0] == '~') {
>> - char *newpath = expand_user_path(path);
>> + strncpy(used_path, path, len);
>
> When len < strlen(path), this will will leave used_path unterminated.
>
Good catch, thanks!
>> +
>> + if (used_path[0] == '~') {
>> + char *newpath = expand_user_path(used_path);
>> if (!newpath || (PATH_MAX - 10 < strlen(newpath))) {
>> free(newpath);
>> return NULL;
>> @@ -316,24 +317,21 @@ char *enter_repo(char *path, int strict)
>> * anyway.
>> */
>> strcpy(used_path, newpath); free(newpath);
>> - strcpy(validated_path, path);
>> - path = used_path;
>> + strcpy(validated_path, used_path);
>
> The point of 'validated_path' is to keep the original unmolested,
> unexpanded path string (plus DWIM suffix), but here you've just
> replaced validated_path with a copy of the expanded_user_path. On the
> other hand, we seem always to strcpy(validated_path , path), so we
> might as well get that done up-front.
Yeah, that's probably better.
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